From 140c0bacbadc35de93cc685313123e9e51b45704 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:50:04 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] change around comments pagespecs

I think it is clearer to have one pagespec that controls all pages with
comments, and a separate pagespec that can be used to close new comments on
a subset of those pages.
---
 IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm | 43 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 doc/plugins/comments.mdwn  | 13 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm
index 83f67869c..6e257d1d9 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm
@@ -34,20 +34,18 @@ sub getsetup () {
 			safe => 1,
 			rebuild => 1,
 		},
-		# Pages where comments are shown, but new comments are not
-		# allowed, will show "Comments are closed".
-		comments_shown_pagespec => {
+		comments_pagespec => {
 			type => 'pagespec',
-			example => 'blog/*',
-			description => 'PageSpec for pages where comments will be shown inline',
+			example => 'blog/* and *!/Discussion',
+			description => 'PageSpec of pages where comments are allowed',
 			link => 'ikiwiki/PageSpec',
 			safe => 1,
 			rebuild => 1,
 		},
-		comments_open_pagespec => {
+		comments_closed_pagespec => {
 			type => 'pagespec',
-			example => 'blog/* and created_after(close_old_comments)',
-			description => 'PageSpec for pages where new comments can be posted',
+			example => 'blog/controversial or blog/flamewar',
+			description => 'PageSpec of pages where posting new comments is not allowed',
 			link => 'ikiwiki/PageSpec',
 			safe => 1,
 			rebuild => 1,
@@ -87,10 +85,10 @@ sub getsetup () {
 sub checkconfig () {
 	$config{comments_commit} = 1
 		unless defined $config{comments_commit};
-	$config{comments_shown_pagespec} = ''
-		unless defined $config{comments_shown_pagespec};
-	$config{comments_open_pagespec} = ''
-		unless defined $config{comments_open_pagespec};
+	$config{comments_pagespec} = ''
+		unless defined $config{comments_pagespec};
+	$config{comments_closed_pagespec} = ''
+		unless defined $config{comments_closed_pagespec};
 	$config{comments_pagename} = 'comment_'
 		unless defined $config{comments_pagename};
 }
@@ -371,7 +369,7 @@ sub sessioncgi ($$) {
 			$page));
 	}
 
-	if (not pagespec_match($page, $config{comments_open_pagespec},
+	if (pagespec_match($page, $config{comments_closed_pagespec},
 		location => $page)) {
 		error(sprintf(gettext(
 			"comments on page '%s' are closed"),
@@ -523,22 +521,21 @@ sub pagetemplate (@) {
 		my $comments = undef;
 
 		my $open = 0;
-		my $shown = pagespec_match($page,
-			$config{comments_shown_pagespec},
-			location => $page);
+		my $shown = 0;
+		if (pagespec_match($page,
+				$config{comments_pagespec},
+				location => $page)) {
+			$shown = 1;
+			$open = length $config{cgiurl} > 0;
+		}
 
-		if (pagespec_match($page, "*/$config{comments_pagename}*",
+		if (pagespec_match($page,
+				"$config{comments_closed_pagespec} or */$config{comments_pagename}*",
 				location => $page)) {
 			$shown = 0;
 			$open = 0;
 		}
 
-		if (length $config{cgiurl}) {
-			$open = pagespec_match($page,
-				$config{comments_open_pagespec},
-				location => $page);
-		}
-
 		if ($shown) {
 			$comments = IkiWiki::preprocess_inline(
 				pages => "internal($page/$config{comments_pagename}*)",
diff --git a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn
index a81cab127..afaf2c7ae 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/comments.mdwn
@@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ Individual comments are stored as internal-use pages named something like
 
 There are some global options for the setup file:
 
-* `comments_open_pagespec`: pages where new comments can be posted, e.g.
-  `blog/* and created_after(close_old_comments)` or `!*/discussion`.
-  You need to set this, since the default is to not add comments to any
-  pages.
-* `comments_shown_pagespec`: pages where comments will be displayed inline,
-  e.g. `blog/*` or `!*/discussion`.
+* `comments_pagespec`: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where comments are
+  allowed. The default is not to allow comments on any pages. To allow
+  comments to all posts to a blog, you could use `blog/* and !*/Discussion`.
+* `comments_closed_pagespec`: [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] of pages where
+  posting of new comments is closed, but any existing comments will still
+  be displayed. Often you will list a set of individual pages here.
+  For example: `blog/controversial or blog/flamewar`
 * `comments_pagename`: if this is e.g. `comment_` (the default), then
   comment pages will be named something like `page/comment_12`
 * `comments_allowdirectives`: if true (default false), comments may
-- 
2.26.2