NewFeatures: Recent Entries For 2005/06/01

A DWiki RedirectFile can now point to absolute URLs as well as local DWiki pages. Absolute URLs are written like they would be in [[...]]; either http:// or <...>.

DWiki now supports generating links to URLs on the wiki's web server that are outside the DWiki itself. These are written as links in the format <...> and have to happen inside [[...]]. For example:

See [[the root of this web server|</>]].

generates a link to the DWiki's web server's root, which is all but certain to be outside the DWiki space if you're running DWiki as a CGI-BIN.

DWiki now remembers the name and URL for links that you write with [[...|...]] and thereafter allows you to omit one side of the |, at which point it will fill in the remembered values. This means that if you want to link to Google a lot in your document, you only have to write (eg) the URL once, and can thereafter refer to Google much more compactly.

This does collide a little bit with using [[...|]] to write totally unstyled text: it only comes out unstyled if it's not already been used as the name of a link.

For now I will live with that.

The RecentChanges DWikiText macro now accepts additional arguments that are the list of directories to restrict the listing to, or with a dash at the front, directories to exclude from the listing. If you combine both, both criteria must match: in an included directory and not excluded.

This lets a RecentChanges listing exclude areas that churn too much or are otherwise less interesting to list. (Perhaps, for example, a blog sub-hierarchy in a DWiki.)

If there is a common directory prefix that scanning is limited to, the scan is efficient: only that directory and lower is looked at at all.