I'd like to see some way to conditionally include wiki text based on whether the wiki enables or disables certain features. For example, [[helponformatting]], could use `\[[if (enabled smiley) """Also, because this wiki has the smiley plugin enabled, you can insert \[[smileys]] and some other useful symbols."""]]`, and a standard template for [[plugins]] pages could check for the given plugin name to print "enabled" or "disabled". Some potentially useful conditionals: * `enabled pluginname` * `disabled pluginname` * `any pagespec`: true if any of the pages in the [[PageSpec]] exist * `all pagespec`: true if all of the pages in the [[PageSpec]] exist * `no pagespec` or `none pagespec`: true if none of the pages in the [[PageSpec]] exist * `thispage pagespec`: true if pagespec includes the page getting rendered (possibly one including the page with this content on it). * `sourcepage pagespec`: true if pagespec includes the page corresponding to the file actually containing this content, rather than a page including it. * `included`: true if included on another page, via [[plugins/inline]], [[plugins/sidebar]], [[plugins/contrib/navbar]], etc. You may or may not want to include boolean operations (`and`, `or`, and `not`); if you do, you could replace `disabled` with `not enabled`, and `no pagespec` or `none pagespec` with `not any pagespec` (but you may want to keep the aliases for simplicity anyway). You also may or may not want to include an `else` clause; if so, you could label the text used if true as `then`. Syntax could vary greatly here, both for the [[PreprocessorDirective]] and for the condition itself. > I think this is a good thing to consider, although conditionals tend to > make everything a lot more complicated, so I also want to KISS, and not > use too many of them. > > I'd probably implement this using the same method as pagespecs, so 'and', > 'or', '!', and paren groupings work. > > It could be thought of as simply testing to see if a pagespec matches > anything, using a slightly expanded syntax for the pagespec, which would > also allow testing for things like link(somepage), > created_before(somepage), etc. > > That also gives us your "any pagespec" for free: "page or page or page". > And for "all pagespec", you can do "page and page and page". > > For plugins testing, maybe just use "enabled(name)"? > > I'm not sure what the use cases are for thispage, sourcepage, and > included. I don't know if the included test is even doable. I'd be > inclined to not bother with these three unless there are use cases I'm > not seeing. > > As to the syntax, to fit it into standard preprocessor syntax, it would > need to look something like this: > > \[[if test="enabled(smiley)" """foo"""]] > > --[[Joey]]