Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-08 Thread Dominique Faure
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 20:42, Oliver Betz list...@gmx.net wrote: Dominique Faure wrote: [...tags vs. links...] IMHO (and on a rather technical point of view), we already have almost all the bells and wistles we could need to handle such kind of data (page text variable, page attributes,...).

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread Hans
Friday, March 5, 2010, 9:06:45 PM, Petko Yotov wrote: While there are users from the community who want this feature, I'm not sure we have a consensus, ot even a majority. The implementation requires substantial changes to the core and I feel that what we have now is not really a good,

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread Simon
On 7 March 2010 21:24, Hans desi...@softflow.co.uk wrote: Friday, March 5, 2010, 9:06:45 PM, Petko Yotov wrote: Why would one want [[!Name]] and [[Category/Name]] to have different meaning? Both are links to the same page (which may or may not exists, but this is a different potentially

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread Petko Yotov
On Sunday 07 March 2010 09:24:44, Hans wrote : Anyway, those are my not very qualified musings I will be thankful if we could continue this discussion where it started on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00447 This way it will be easy to get an overview of opinions and new ideas from the

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread Petko Yotov
On Sunday 07 March 2010 09:24:44, Hans wrote : Petko writes in the original post: Category links are stored in a special attribute in the page file, and also in a special file .pageindex to speed up the searches, in the form Category.Name Category.Name2 etc. I don't see that. I only see

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread Peter Bowers
2010/3/7 Petko Yotov 5...@5ko.fr: I will be thankful if we could continue this discussion where it started on  http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00447 or, for the related issue: http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/01095 -Peter ___ pmwiki-users mailing list

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread Hans
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 8:44:24 AM, Simon wrote: The markup [[!SomeCategory]] is a tag, it categorises a page. It is a definition or declaration. The markup [[Category/SomeCategory] is a reference to page (that lists pages on which a particular tag occurs) When listing pages that are

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread DaveG
On 3/7/2010 8:23 AM, Hans wrote: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 8:44:24 AM, Simon wrote: The markup [[!SomeCategory]] is a tag, it categorises a page. It is a definition or declaration. The markup [[Category/SomeCategory] is a reference to page (that lists pages on which a particular tag occurs)

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread Dominique Faure
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 17:47, DaveG pmw...@solidgone.com wrote: On 3/7/2010 8:23 AM, Hans wrote: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 8:44:24 AM, Simon wrote: The markup [[!SomeCategory]] is a tag, it categorises a page. It is a definition or declaration. The  markup [[Category/SomeCategory] is a

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-07 Thread Oliver Betz
Dominique Faure wrote: [...tags vs. links...] IMHO (and on a rather technical point of view), we already have almost all the bells and wistles we could need to handle such kind of data (page text variable, page attributes,...). The problerm here is more a need to know how to use the available

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-06 Thread Simon
I feed that the existing use of bang in pagelist selections is either low or non existent, in part because the documentation doesn't mention it strongly, and all examples user the hyphen. Community can correct me on this ... The new markup could be introduced initially as an option that has to be

Re: [pmwiki-users] RFC: Indexing categories and links (suspended)

2010-03-05 Thread Petko Yotov
On Thursday 04 March 2010 10:03:12, Peter Bowers wrote : On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Petko Yotov 5...@5ko.fr wrote: I now see a problem of which I haven't thought before -- with other parameters like name=!Name or group=!Name the ! means NOT Name so link=!Name may be confusing and a bad