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[ikiwiki] / doc / todo / Suggested_location_should_be_subpage_if_siblings_exist.mdwn

Given a page `/foo` and a subpage `/foo/bar`, if I add a link to `baz` to
`/foo` and click on the link to create the page, the suggested location
should be `/foo/baz` instead of `/baz`. The rationale is that presence of a
sibling folder, or sibling pages (with `usefolders=0`) is a strong hint
that we're at the root of a (sub-)hierarchy.

> I think there's something to be said for consistency, even if it doesn't
> make the best guess every time. It makes it more easy to learn when 
> you do need to change the location, and learn when default works.
> 
> In your example, to get the foo/bar page created, you'd need to remember
> to change the default when creating that subpage. But only for the first
> subpage, after that it would get the default right. But who can remember if
> a particular page has a subpage already? You end up having to check every
> time anyway. Plus, you'd have to check every time you wanted to create "bar"
> from "foo" that it didn't guess you meant "foo/bar".
> 
> With the current simple default, you at least
> know you don't need to check in that fairly common case, which seems like
> a win over your suggestion.
> 
> IMHO, what you really want is [[Moving_pages]]. :-) --[[Joey]]

>> This sounds like WONTFIX to me? --[[smcv]]

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