X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/57035d610e9446e9a50b6807be2bb33d182c4c3b..fd94834c72f0682001603d01dda659ea4a4d8792:/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn index 229c6f28b..f2c60309b 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Titles_are_lower-cased_when_creating_a_page.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,32 @@ When you click on a broken link to create a new page, Ikiwiki lower-cases the new page's filename. I wish it wouldn't. If I click on "Czars in Russia", I'd like Ikiwiki to create "Czars\_in\_Russia.mdwn", not "czars\_in\_russia.mdwn". Is this possible? --[[sabr]] + +> There's a simple patch that can do this: + +> --- a/IkiWiki.pm +> +++ b/IkiWiki.pm +> @@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ sub htmllink ($$$;@) { +> return " cgiurl( +> do => "create", +> - page => pagetitle(lc($link), 1), +> + page => pagetitle($link, 1), +> from => $lpage +> ). +> "\">?$linktext" + +> This is fine if you don't mind mixed or randomly cased filenames getting +> created. Otoh, if the link happened to start a sentence and so had its +> first letter upper-cased, that might not be desired. +> +> Of course ikiwiki's case insensative, and there are other ways +> of creating pages that don't lower case them, including using the create +> a page form on a blog (as was done for this page..). +> +> I'm undecided about making the above change by default though, or about making +> it a config option. Maybe it would be better to include both capitalisations +> in the select list that is used to pick the name for the newly created page. +> Then, which one is the default wouldn't much matter. (The non-lower cased +> one would probably be the best choice.) --[[Joey]] +>> Either of your proposed solutions (make it the default or include both in the pop-up menu) sounds fine to me. Which one is easier? :) --[[sabr]]