A couple of suggestions for improving the usefulness of pagespecs:

* @ to match [^/]* (i.e. all pages exactly one level below this one)
* initial ./ to mean "from the page the pagespec is running from".
  This would require some architectural changes and a change to the
  interface for pagespec_match. What do you think? I have
  lots of pages a/b/c.mdwn that inline "a/b/c/*".

--Ethan

> I want this too, so that the [[examples]] can use pagespecs that don't
> have to be changed when the pages are moved around. I don't know how I
> feel about the "@" thing, but "./" seems good. I take it you've looked at
> how to implement it?
>
> It's worth mentioning that there's a bit of an inconsistency; wikilinks
> match relative by default and absolute if prefixed with a "/", while
> pagespecs match absolute by default. It would be nice to clear up that
> inconsistency somehow, it's on my little list of things in ikiwiki that
> arn't ideal. :-) --[[Joey]]