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diff --git a/docs/glossary.rst b/docs/glossary.rst index 0e8f982a9..b50b77f96 100644 --- a/docs/glossary.rst +++ b/docs/glossary.rst @@ -92,7 +92,12 @@ Glossary View name The "URL name" of a view, e.g ``index.html``. If a view is configured without a name, its name is considered to be the empty - string (which implies the "default view"). + string (which implies the :term:`default view`). + Default view + The default view of a model is the view invoked when the + :term:`view name` is the empty string (``''``). This is the case + when :term:`traversal` exhausts the path elements in the PATH_INFO + of a request before it returns a :term:`context`. Virtualenv An isolated Python environment. Allows you to control which packages are used on a particular project by cloning your main |