From: http://kerravonsen.dreamwidth.org/ Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 01:14:39 +0000 (-0400) Subject: (no commit message) X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8f8d8ec00570fefd3ea600d087b9a02713f46e43;p=ikiwiki.git --- diff --git a/doc/todo/pagespec_aliases/discussion.mdwn b/doc/todo/pagespec_aliases/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..2c51b415a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/pagespec_aliases/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Something which is similar to aliases is the "trail" concept I use in the [[plugins/contrib/report]] plugin. (Also my "pmap" plugin, but that's only in my "experimental" branch on github). One can define a "trail" by making a report with the "doscan" option (I should probably change the name of that) and then that page has a "trail" which matches the pagespec in that report. +Then one can reference that page as a "trail" without having to reuse that pagespec. +(It's also very useful in speeding up the processing, because the matching pages have been remembered, and one doesn't have to search for them again). + +So, for example, one could make a page "all_images" and have a report (or pmap, which is simpler) like so: +