{"id":186,"date":"2015-01-23T01:05:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T05:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-01-23T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:55:52","slug":"emacs-and-twiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzsim.org\/blog\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Emacs and TWiki"},"content":{"rendered":"

At work I have cause to edit a TWiki that my team uses for internal documentation. I wanted to use Emacs for this task, so that I wouldn’t need to interact with a web browser text area widget. I couldn’t find anything that did that, so I took the closest thing I could find, erin.el<\/code>, a TWiki markup mode, and added connectivity to it via Emacs’s url<\/code> package.<\/p>\n

The result is a fork of erin.el<\/a> that supports these new operations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Log in:<\/strong><\/td>\nM-x erin-log-in<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Edit a topic:<\/strong><\/td>\nM-x erin-edit-topic<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Commit edits:<\/strong><\/td>\nC-c C-c<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cancel edits:<\/strong><\/td>\nC-c C-k<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Log out:<\/strong><\/td>\nM-x erin-log-out<\/code><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

without ever leaving Emacs. Now with EWW<\/a> to see the resulting pages, there’s no need to leave Emacs at all.<\/p>\n

This being a fork, it doesn’t qualify for MELPA<\/a>, and I can’t get in touch with the original author, so it will stay in limbo as a raw repo, without ever being packaged.<\/p>\n

A while after I did this development, emacs-twiki-mode<\/a> sprang up. It looks like it has some nice advantages, like orgtbl<\/a> editing. If it used Emacs’s built-in URL handling instead of an external bash<\/code> script I would probably switch to it. For now my erin.el<\/code> fork works well enough for me. I do wish there were one monster Emacs mode that would handle all Wiki server implementations, including connectivity; a sort of Gnus for Wikis. Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At work I have cause to edit a TWiki that my team uses for internal documentation. I wanted to use Emacs for this task, so that I wouldn’t need to interact with a web browser text area widget. I couldn’t find anything that did that, so I took the closest thing I could find, erin.el, … <\/p>\n

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