web commit by ptman: It seems the exclamation mark is now needed, can someone confirm...

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / edittemplate.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/plugins/edittemplate.mdwn b/doc/plugins/edittemplate.mdwn
index 6963b71256e8af17d2db54ed510cfd2dc0c86408..8140b4f4195fc6d118b89b1c33c6280a29e1eaac 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/plugins/edittemplate.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/edittemplate.mdwn
@@ -3,23 +3,13 @@
 
 This plugin allows registering template pages, that provide default
 content for new pages created using the web frontend. To register a
-template, insert a [[PreprocessorDirective]] on some other page.
+template, insert a [[Preprocessor_Directive|/ikiwiki/preprocessordirective]] on some other page.
 
-[[template id=note text="""
-Note: It's generally not a good idea to put the `edittemplate` directive in
-the template page itself, since the directive would then be included as
-part of the template on new pages, which would then in turn be registered
-as templates. If multiple pages are registered as templates for a new page,
-an arbitrary one is chosen, so that could get confusing.
-"""]]
-
-       \[[edittemplate template="bugtemplate" match="bugs/*"]]
+       \[[!edittemplate template="bugtemplate" match="bugs/*"]]
 
 In the above example, the page named "bugtemplate" is registered as a
 template to be used when any page named "bugs/*" is created.
 
-----
-
 Often the template page contains a simple skeleton for a particular type of
 page. For the bug report pages in the above example, it might look
 something like:
@@ -33,3 +23,11 @@ The template page can also contain [[cpan HTML::Template]] directives,
 similar to other ikiwiki [[templates]]. Currently only one variable is
 set: `<TMPL_VAR name>` is replaced with the name of the page being
 created.
+
+----
+
+It's generally not a good idea to put the `edittemplate` directive in
+the template page itself, since the directive would then be included as
+part of the template on new pages, which would then in turn be registered
+as templates. If multiple pages are registered as templates for a new page,
+an arbitrary one is chosen, so that could get confusing.