From: http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:03:32 +0000 (-0400) Subject: internal pages are already matched specially... X-Git-Tag: 3.15~97 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a722a855074193cb7f98b4110e9fb4a65bf60fdd;p=ikiwiki.git internal pages are already matched specially... --- diff --git a/doc/bugs/entirely_negated_pagespec_matches_internal_pages.mdwn b/doc/bugs/entirely_negated_pagespec_matches_internal_pages.mdwn index 02ce4e221..a9b223a46 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/entirely_negated_pagespec_matches_internal_pages.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/entirely_negated_pagespec_matches_internal_pages.mdwn @@ -21,3 +21,10 @@ pagespec, and implicitly add "and !internal()" to it. Either approach would require fully parsing the pagespec. And consider cases like "!(foo and !bar)". Doesn't seem at all easy to solve. --[[Joey]] + +> It occurs to me that at least one place in ikiwiki optimizes by assuming +> that pagespecs not mentioning the word "internal" never match internal +> pages. I wonder whether this bug could be solved by making that part of +> the definition of a pagespec, rather than a risky optimization +> like it is now? That seems strange, though - having this special case +> would make pagespecs significantly harder to understand. --[[smcv]]