Plugin: sar
Author: VictorMoral
Included in ikiwiki: no
Enabled by default: no
Included in goodstuff: no
Currently enabled: no

The sar plugin is useful to make global or local search and replace operations using common or specific terms.

The characteristics are:

  • Support for a global dictionary page (optional but recommended).
  • Is possible to replace the first appearance with a text and the rest with other.

The global dictionary page is like this:

## Sites and projects

- [[!sar  search="ikiwiki" first="[IkiWiki](http://ikiwiki.info)" next="_IkiWiki_"]]
- [[!sar  search="debian" first="[Debian](http://debian.org)" next="_Debian_"]]
- [[!sar  search="perl" first="[Perl](http://perl.org)" next="_Perl_"]]
- [[!sar  search="linux" replace="GNU/Linux"]]

## Persons
- [[!sar  search="joey" first="[Joey Hess](http://ikiwiki.info/users/joey]]" next="_Joey_" ]]
- [[!sar  search="angel" first="[Angel](http://triptico.com)" next="Angel"]]

## Technical terms

- [[!sar  search="smtp" first="\[[!wp SMTP]]" next="‘SMTP‘"]]
- [[!sar  search="pop3" first="\[[!wp POP3]]" next="’POP3’"]]

The search expressions must be surrounded by double dashes in a source ikiwiki page, like this:

Mis programas están escritos en lenguaje --perl--, funcionando con el 
sistema --debian--, y mis páginas web funcionan con --ikiwiki-- cuyo autor
es --joey--.

--ikiwiki-- es un buen software.

After a filter operation the content is:

Mis programas están escritos en lenguaje [Perl](http://perl.org),
funcionando con el sistema [Debian](http://debian.org), y mis páginas web
funcionan con [IkiWiki](http://ikiwiki.info) cuyo autor es [Joey
Hess](http://ikiwiki.info/users/joey).

_IkiWiki_ es un buen software.

Note: I chose this syntax because don't clashes with markdown and it is easy to write.

A search and replace directive has the following parameters:

  • search: define the text to search.
  • first: define the replace text in the first match.
  • next: define the replace text in all matches except the first.
  • replace: define the replace text in all matches.

Now the code is used at my site without problems, and the author will appreciate any help with his development or his english.

Configuration

The plugin need the following global values:

  • sar_mainpage: define the global dictionary page. The default value is sar.
  • sar_pagespec: enable the plugin with a selection of pages. The default value is *, but a recommended value is link(tag/sar).

Synopsis

In a ikiwiki source page we can write this

[[!sar  search=debian replace="__Debian__"]]

for define a global replace for the term --debian-- or

\[[!sar search=ibm first=’[IBM](http://www.ibm.com)’
        next="_IBM_"]]

to define a replace for the first match of the string --ibm-- and a different replace for the rest.

Changelog

version 0.8

  • First functional version with the new sar expressions.

version 0.7

  • New design for the search expressions.

version 0.6

  • Minor bugfixes in the pages selection.
  • Call to add_depends() for every page filtered

version 0.5

  • This is the first functional version.

Download

The module can be downloaded from: