summary

Extend inlining to handle raw files (files with unrecognized extensions).

Also raise an error in IkiWiki::pagetype($file) if $file is blank, which avoids trying to do much with missing files, etc.

I'm using the new code in my blog.

usage

[[!inline  pagenames="somefile.txt" template="raw" feeds="no"]]

But inline already supports raw files in two ways:

• setting raw=yes will cause a page to be inlined raw without using any template, as if it were part of the page at the location of the inline
• otherwise, the file becomes an enclosure in the rss feed, for use with podcasting.

So I don't see the point of your patch. Although since your text editor seems to like to make lots of whitespace changes, it's possible I missed something in the large quantity of noise introduced by it. --Joey

As I understand it, setting raw=yes causes the page to be inlined as if the page contents had appeared in place of the directive. The content is then processed by whatever htmlize() applies to the inlining page. I want the inlined page to be unprocessed, and wrapped in <pre><code>...</code></pre> (as they are on the blog post I link to above).

Enclosures do not include the page contents at all, just a link to them. I'm trying to inline the content so I can comment on it from the inlining page.

Apologies for my cluttered version history, I should have branched my earlier changes off to make things clearer. I tried to isolate my whitespace changes (fixes?) in c9ae012d245154c3374d155958fcb0b60fda57ce. 157389355d01224b2d3c3f6e4c1eb42a20ec8a90 should hold all the content changes.

A list of other things globbed into my master branch that should have been separate branches:

• Make it easy to select a Markdown executable for mdwn.pm.
• Included an updated form of Javier Rojas' linktoimgonly.pm.
• Included an updated form of Jason Blevins' mdwn_itex.pm.
• Assorted minor documentation changes.

--wtk

I haven't heard anything in a while, so I've reorganized my version history and rebased it on the current ikiwiki head. Perhaps now it will be easier to merge or reject. Note the new branch name: raw_inline. I'll open separate todo items for items mentioned in my previous comment. --wtk

Reviewing your patch the first thing I see is this:

+        if (! $file) {
+               error("Missing file.");
+        }

This fails if the filename is "0". Also, pagetype() currently cannot fail; allowing it to crash the entire wiki build if the filename is somehow undefined seems unwise.

I didn't look much further, because it seems to me what you're trying to do can be better accomplished by using the highlight plugin. Assuming the raw file you want to inline and comment on is some source-code-like thing, which seems likely.

Or, another way to do it would be to use the templates plugin, and make a template there that puts an inline directive inside pre tags. --Joey

If pagetype() cannot fail, then I suppose that check has to go ;).

I was under the impression that highlight didn't support inlining code. It looks like it supports highlighing stand-alone files or embedded code. Perhaps I should extend it to support inlined code instead of pushing this patch?

If you configure highlight to support standalone files, then you can inline the resulting pages and get nicely highlighted source code inlined into the page. --Joey

The raw.tmpl included in the patch does include the inlined content inside pre tags. The problem is that the current inline code insists on running htmlize() on the content before inserting it in the template. The heart of my patch is an altered get_inline_content() that makes the htmlize() call dependent on a $read_raw flag. If the flag is set, the raw (non-htmlized) content is used instead.

I just rebased my patches against the current Ikiwiki trunk (no major changes) to make them easier to review. --wtk