remove incorrect bit

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / todo / Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn b/doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn
index 0dbcef68d90ffc3c7d3dcaf1ec6e6e5a885af680..536980ea8e9cd4e44e5e8ad6b98f50473d91c56b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn
+++ b/doc/todo/Add_space_before_slash_in_parent_links.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This patch adds a space before the forward-slash in the the parent links. There is already a space after the slash.
+This [[patch]] adds a space before the forward-slash in the the parent links. There is already a space after the slash.
 
 > I intentionally put the space after the slash and not before, because I
 > like how it looks that way. So I don't plan to apply this patch unless a
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ This patch adds a space before the forward-slash in the the parent links. There
 
 >>> Yes, please.  This seems to be something a lot of people want to customize.  (I certainly do -- a forward slash only looks natural to Unix users)  --[[sabr]]
 
+>> Joey, would I be right to summarize your position on this as "people who
+>> want to change the text of the templates should maintain their own version
+>> of the `.tmpl` files"? It's not clear to me how this todo item could be
+>> closed in a way acceptable to you, except perhaps as WONTFIX. --[[smcv]]
+
 Before:
 
     ikiwiki/ todo/ Add space before slash in parent links
@@ -56,3 +61,23 @@ Patch:
     +<TMPL_VAR INDEXLINK> / <TMPL_VAR TITLE>
      </span>
      </div>
+
+----
+
+It's almost implicit in some of the discussion above but this can be achieved locally if you fork your templates directory from ikiwiki's, with an ammendment such as
+
+    <h1><TMPL_LOOP NAME="PARENTLINKS"><a
+        href="<TMPL_VAR NAME=URL>"><TMPL_VAR NAME=PAGE></a>
+        &rarr;
+        </TMPL_LOOP><TMPL_VAR TITLE></h1>
+
+This is what I do on my site for example. -- [[Jon]]
+
+> You don't actually need to fork the whole directory, "only" `page.tmpl` -
+> put `templatedir => "/foo/templates"` in your setup file, copy `page.tmpl`
+> to that directory, and modify it there. IkiWiki will look in `templatedir`
+> first, then fall back to its default templates if any are missing from
+> `templatedir`.
+>
+> (Admittedly, `page.tmpl` is the hardest to maintain a fork of, because it
+> tends to change whenever a new plugin is added...) --[[smcv]]