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# type:

One "core" field of PMD is the type: specifier in each script:

# type: io

It's meant to be used by common "hook" plugin systems. Albeit it can be entirely decorational again.

• Some apps might declare a few special values like init or core, and ignore all the rest.

• Other plugin systems might utilize sidebar or post-form to tie scripts to specific invocation points already.

• Or could just be a superset of category:, and not be used any further.

Some application API and plugin needs will instead use manual per-script code to register themselves. In which case this field would only be used for plugin installation e.g.

Others might even combine type: and category: or additionally a custom class: and function: field for feature lookup/invocation.

common script types

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