[pmwiki-users] LastModifiedBySummary

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:51:55AM -0700, Steve Rowe wrote:
> I'm confused by this.  I posted a question on the
> LastChangeSummary recipe.  I can't seem to get the
> {$LastModifiedSummary} page variable to work on any of
> my pages.  Is it because it is missing the "By" in
> {$LastModifiedBySummary}?  Should I just go ahead and
> use the {$LastChangeSummary} page variable from the
> recipe anyway?  

What version of PmWiki are you running?

The correct variable is {$LastModifiedSummary} -- no "By".

I would recommend against using the recipe -- it's quite a
bit out of date.  

Is there a url we could look at?

Pm


> --- Pico <pmwiki at ben-amotz.com> wrote:
> 
> > I added an entry for LastModifiedBySummary in
> > PmWiki/PageVariables and noticed
> > that the returned value is not treated as literal
> > text: if the summary includes
> > markup, the markup will be translated and rendered
> > by PmWiki.
> > 
> > For example, when I added a summary stating that I
> > had "Added
> > {$LastModifiedBySummary}" the entry on the page went
> > into a loop, stating
> > something like "Added Added Added Added
> > {$LastModifiedBySummary}" 
> > 
> > In another example, one of the summaries included
> > pagelist markup, which caused
> > the pagelist I created to include a nested pagelist
> > in the middle, which was
> > very confusing and the cause might not be self
> > evident in other situations.
> > 
> > The easiest way to deal with this is to escape the
> > variable, for example, to
> > write [={=$LastModifiedBySummary}=] instead of
> > {=$LastModifiedBySummary}.
> > 
> > I can add a note to the PageVariable entry, but,
> > will that be enough?  Should
> > the default output of {$LastModifiedBySummary} be
> > changed to return literal
> > strings?  Is there some value and use for having
> > PmWiki applying markup rules to
> > the value returned by {$LastModifiedBySummary}?
> > 
> > Pico
> > 
> > 
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