Soon after I learned of the concept of a wiki, I became enamored of the idea of a [using a wiki for my own personal ends.]:http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?PersonalWiki The whole concept of [accidental linking]:http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?AccidentalLinking and relatively painless and automagically organizing data was just too attractive to resist. <\/p>\n
I had a brief fling with Zwiki runing on Zope, and stuck with it for a while, but in the end, it was just too heavyweight to for my needs. It was just too much a hog for my modest system running WindowsME (fine, make fun of me). I never kept up with it. But I have a new idea….<\/p>\n
I can use John Wiegley’s EmacsWikiMode on local files. There are several advantages to this approach as compared to Zwiki.<\/p>\n
* You can edit pages in a *real* editor, not a friggin’ text box in a browser.
\n* You can even edit those pages in a crappy editor, like notepad or vi (hahaha), though the view won’t be wikified.
\n* Local files are viewable without a web browser or web server.
\n* Local files are easy to sync in a distributed filesystem, or via [rsync,]:http:\/\/samba.anu.edu.au\/rsync\/ or [unison.]:http:\/\/www.cis.upenn.edu\/~bcpierce\/unison\/
\n* Emacs, and thus EmacsWikiMode runs on a whole lot of platforms. So this means that I can view\/edit on whatever platform I happen to be using. <\/p>\n
There are some disadvantages:<\/p>\n
* no multiuser (that’s okay for me)
\n* no cool pretty layouts (okay too)
\n* limited text formatting syntax (this is probably the biggest limitation)<\/p>\n
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The wiki concept has a lot of derivative ideas. Hey, I wouldn’t have been drawn to TikiText in this MT blog if I wasn’t already familiar with [WikiFormatting]:http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?WikiFormatting and [StructuredText]:http:\/\/zwiki.org\/StructuredText . (aside: Is there a WikiEngine that uses a TikiText derivative? It’s growing on me…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Soon after I learned of the concept of a wiki, I became enamored of the idea of a [using a wiki for my own personal ends.]:http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?PersonalWiki The whole concept of [accidental linking]:http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?AccidentalLinking and relatively painless and automagically organizing data was …<\/p>\n