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@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ plugin, and a "call" parameter, which tells what function to call for the
 hook.
 
 An optional "last" parameter, if set to a true value, makes the hook run
-after all other hooks of its type. Useful if the hook depends on some other
-hook being run first.
+after all other hooks of its type, and an optional "first" parameter makes
+it run first. Useful if the hook depends on some other hook being run first.
 
 ## Types of hooks
 
@@ -360,21 +360,25 @@ This hook is called whenever ikiwiki normally saves its state, just before
 the state is saved. The function can save other state, modify values before
 they're saved, etc.
 
-### displaytime
+### renamelink
 
-	hook(type => "displaytime", id => "foo", call => \&display);
+	hook(type => "renamelink", id => "foo", call => \&renamelink);
 
-This hook can be registered to override the regular `displaytime` function.
-Only the last displaytime hook will be used.
+This hook is called by the [[plugins/rename]] plugin when it renames
+something, once per page linking to the renamed page's old location.
+The hook is passed named parameters: `page`, `oldpage`, `newpage`, and
+`content`, and should try to modify the content of `page` to reflect
+the name change. For example, by converting links to point to the
+new page.
 
-### renamepage
+### rename
 
-	hook(type => "renamepage", id => "foo", call => \&renamepage);
+	hook(type => "rename", id => "foo", call => \&renamepages);
 
-This hook is called by the [[plugins/rename]] plugin when it renames
-something. The hook is passed named parameters: `page`, `oldpage`,
-`newpage`, and `content`, and should try to modify the content to reflect
-the name change. For example, by converting links to point to the new page.
+When a page or set of pages is renamed, the referenced function is
+called, and passed a reference to an array of hashes with keys:
+`src`, `srcfile`, `dest`, `destfile`, `required`. It can modify
+the array.
 
 ### getsetup
 
@@ -703,11 +707,15 @@ This can be called when creating a new page, to determine what filename
 to save the page to. It's passed a page name, and its type, and returns
 the name of the file to create, relative to the srcdir.
 
-#### `targetpage($$)`
+#### `targetpage($$;$)`
 
 Passed a page and an extension, returns the filename that page will be
 rendered to.
 
+Optionally, a third parameter can be passed, to specify the preferred
+filename of the page. For example, `targetpage("foo", "rss", "feed")`
+will yield something like `foo/feed.rss`.
+
 ## Miscellaneous
 
 ### Internal use pages
@@ -827,6 +835,30 @@ it up in the history.
 
 It's ok if this is not implemented, and throws an error.
 
+#### `rcs_receive()`
+
+This is called when ikiwiki is running as a pre-receive hook (or
+equivalent), and is testing if changes pushed into the RCS from an
+untrusted user should be accepted. This is optional, and doesn't make
+sense to implement for all RCSs.
+
+It should examine the incoming changes, and do any sanity 
+checks that are appropriate for the RCS to limit changes to safe file adds,
+removes, and changes. If something bad is found, it should exit
+nonzero, to abort the push. Otherwise, it should return a list of
+files that were changed, in the form:
+
+	{
+		file => # name of file that was changed
+		action => # either "add", "change", or "remove"
+		path => # temp file containing the new file content, only
+			# needed for "add"/"change", and only if the file
+			# is an attachment, not a page
+	}
+
+The list will then be checked to make sure that each change is one that
+is allowed to be made via the web interface.
+
 ### PageSpec plugins
 
 It's also possible to write plugins that add new functions to
@@ -854,6 +886,56 @@ By the way, to parse a ikiwiki setup file and populate `%config`, a
 program just needs to do something like:
 `use IkiWiki::Setup; IkiWiki::Setup::load($filename)`
 
+### Function overriding
+
+Sometimes using ikiwiki's pre-defined hooks is not enough. Your plugin
+may need to replace one of ikiwiki's own functions with a modified version,
+or wrap one of the functions.
+
+For example, your plugin might want to override `displaytime`, to change
+the html markup used when displaying a date. Or it might want to override
+`IkiWiki::formattime`, to change how a date is formatted. Or perhaps you
+want to override `bestlink` and change how ikiwiki deals with WikiLinks.
+
+By venturing into this territory, your plugin is becoming tightly tied to
+ikiwiki's internals. And it might break if those internals change. But
+don't let that stop you, if you're brave.
+
+Ikiwiki provides an `inject()` function, that is a powerful way to replace
+any function with one of your own. This even allows you to inject a
+replacement for an exported function, like `bestlink`. Everything that
+imports that function will get your version instead. Pass it the name of
+the function to replace, and a new function to call. 
+
+For example, here's how to replace `displaytime` with a version using HTML 5
+markup:
+
+	inject(name => 'IkiWiki::displaytime', call => sub {
+		return "<time>".formattime(@_)."</time>";
+	});
+
+Here's how to wrap `bestlink` with a version that tries to handle
+plural words:
+
+	my $origbestlink=\&bestlink;
+	inject(name => 'IkiWiki::bestlink', call => \&mybestlink);
+
+	sub deplural ($) {
+		my $word=shift;
+		$word =~ s/e?s$//; # just an example :-)
+		return $word;
+	}
+
+	sub mybestlink ($$) {
+		my $page=shift;
+		my $link=shift;
+		my $ret=$origbestlink->($page, $link);
+		if (! length $ret) {
+			$ret=$origbestlink->($page, deplural($link));
+		}
+		return $ret;
+	}
+
 ### Javascript
 
 Some plugins use javascript to make ikiwiki look a bit more web-2.0-ish.