X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/a6f45ea2364cd9c54cd550c17b57c6480c10d360..e78883e07fc518cea2315b3765631d747550905a:/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn b/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn index 0f8badae8..3ff8b9ef6 100644 --- a/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/simple_text_parsing_or_regex_in_template_or_shortcut.mdwn @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Either [[plugins/template]] or [[plugins/shortcut]] should support some form of very simple text parsing or regex application, to make it possible to write shortcuts like these: - [[mmlist listname@lists.example.org]] -> ([mailman page] (http://lists.example.org/mailman/listinfo/listname) - [[debchangelog packagename]] -> [packagename changelog](http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/packagename/current/changelog) + [[!mmlist listname@lists.example.org]] -> ([mailman page] (http://lists.example.org/mailman/listinfo/listname) + [[!debcl packagename]] -> [packagename changelog](http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/packagename/current/changelog) For shortcut definitions, a `match` parameter could supply a regex, and then the `url` and `desc` parameters could make use of the named or numbered groups from the match. @@ -21,3 +21,12 @@ special-purpose plugins. It should be very simple to write plugins for the above two examples, that look identical to the user as what you described. --[[Joey]] + +Fair enough. I only proposed regexes for the purposes of generality. + +That said, some simple text substitution mechanisms might handle many of these +cases without the need for a specialized plugin beyond [[plugins/shortcut]]. +For instance, substring extraction would suffice for the `debcl` shortcut, and +something like a split function would work for the `mmlist` shortcut. + +--[[JoshTriplett]]