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[ikiwiki] / doc / bugs / listdirectives_doesn__39__t_register_a_link.mdwn

The [[ikiwiki/directive/listdirectives]]` directive doesn't register a link between the page and the subpages. This is a problem because then the [[ikiwiki/directive/orphans]] directive then marks the directives as orphans... Maybe it is a but with the orphans directive however... A simple workaround is to exclude those files from the orphans call... --[[anarcat]]

> There's a distinction between wikilinks (matched by `link()`,
> `backlink()` etc.) and other constructs that produce a
> hyperlink. Some directives count as a wikilink (like `tag`)
> but many don't (notably `inline`, `map`, `listdirectives`,
> and `orphans` itself). As documented in
> [[ikiwiki/directive/orphans]], orphans will tend to list
> pages that are only matched by inlines/maps, too.
>
> The rule of thumb seems to be that a link to a particular
> page counts as a wikilink, but a directive that lists
> pages matching some pattern does not; so I think
> `listdirectives` is working as intended here.
> `orphans` itself obviously shouldn't count as a wikilink,
> because that would defeat the point of it :-)
>
> Anything that uses a [[ikiwiki/pagespec]] to generate links,
> like `inline` and `map`, can't generate wikilinks, because
> wikilinks are gathered during the scan phase, and pagespecs
> can't be matched until after the scan phase has finished
> (otherwise, it'd be non-deterministic whether all wikilinks
> had been seen yet, and `link()` in pagespecs wouldn't work
> predictably).
>
> I suggest just using something like:
>
>     \[[!orphans pages="* and !blog/* and !ikiwiki/directive/*"]]
>
> This wiki's example of listing [[plugins/orphans]] has a
> more elaborate pagespec, which avoids bugs, todo items etc.
> as well.
>
> --[[smcv]]