ikiwiki/ todo/ toplevel index

Some inconsistences around the toplevel index page:


I would like to suggest another tack, namely a bigger, better special case. The basic idea is that all indices of the form foo/bar/index get the wiki path foo/bar. This makes some things more elegant:

This would change the inline plugin in strange ways -- I think if foo/index.html contains [[inline "* and !*/Discussion"]], it should skip inlining foo/index.html explicitly, but would inline index pages in child directories foo/bar/baz/index.html as bar/baz.

It always bothers me that foo/bar/ files need a foo/bar.html in front of them, rather than a foo/bar/index.html, as is (to my mind) traditional.

Ethan

Hmm, now I've had time to think about this, and this does conflict pretty hard with foo.html/Discussion pages. Well, back to the drawing board.

Well, it seems unlikely that you'll have both foo/bar.html and foo/bar/index.html, so why not accept either as foo/bar? This would both preserve backwards compatibility, as well as allow foo/bar/Discussion.

Ethan

No, in order for this to work, the wiki path foo/bar/baz could be any of:

Or many others. Which is probably even hackier than having both foo.html and foo/.

Ethan