wikis (was Re: [BBLISA] Suggestions for a documentation system)

[Mark Lamourine]

You Luddite You.... ;-)

Most wikis will let you cutnpaste.  copy the file to an emacs buffer,
edit, and paste back?  TWiki even has a "raw text" display button for
the cut and you can click "edit" to paste it back.

It's not elegant.  But then, neither is keeping all your documentation
in unprotected flat files.  Effective (in a limited way) yes.  Elegant?

- Mark

On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 09:48 -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> The only problem I have with most Wiki's is that web browsers *suck*
> for editing any amount of text over 1 line.  Really.  Especially since
> I've got emacs (and to a much lesser extent vi) keybindings into my
> head and I don't want to let them go.  
> 
> The web is a great publishing medium.  And a decent minor input
> medium.  But it is NOT a good way to do serious data entry, even with
> the rise of the AJAX programming model, etc.
> 
> This is why I still use flat text files in a directory to store my
> notes and such.  No, I don't RCS them.  No, I can't browse them on the
> web.  But I can grep and edit very quickly and they have the info I
> need.
> 
> So maybe what I'm saying is that I want an emacs wiki client, without
> the web browser (w3m?) insanity/overhead.
> 
> John
> 
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