Godlike editing speed: redirecting to /add_new if page does not exist #94
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Summary
Instead of showing a traceback error page, we can do something more useful: prompt a user to create a new page if it does not exist! Bonus: by using
?page=
url parameter we can specify which page we are going to edit. See the example below.Details
Before displaying a page, wikmd checks mtime of a file. If a file does not exist, it will throw a FileNotFound error. We can catch this error and do a redirect instead. More to that, we can pass a page name as an argument to the
/add_new
route and therefore put the path to a page right into a template.Checks
docs/<corresponding file>