Mediawiki.el
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Description | Mediawiki interface and markup mode |
---|---|
Author | name of author |
Maintainer | Mark A. Hershberger |
Source | https://code.launchpad.net/~hexmode/mediawiki-el/trunk |
Part of Emacs | no |
Mediawiki.el is a package to help add content to any mediawiki site including WikEmacs. It comes with a Major Mode to support editing Mediawiki markup.
Setup
Install mediawiki.el from el-get or ELPA.
Customization
- M-x load-library RET mediawiki RET
- Load the library
- M-x customize-variable RET mediawiki-site-alist
- Configure as follows and save your settings
- Site Name: WikEmacs
- URL: http://wikemacs.org/w/
- Username: InCognito
- Password: s!cr!t
- First Page: Main Page
- You can provide "Username" and "Password" in your .authinfo file. home directory.
Alternatively you can add this snippet of Emacs Lisp code to your .emacs:
(require 'mediawiki)
(setq mediawiki-site-alist '(("Wikipedia" "http://en.wikipedia.org/w" "" "" "Main Page")
("WikEmacs" "http://wikemacs.org/w/" "" "" "Main Page")))
;; Emacs users care more for WikEmacs than Wikipedia :-)
(setq mediawiki-site-default "WikEmacs")
You can naturally add more MediaWiki sites to the mediawiki-site-alist variable.
Usage
- M-x mediawiki-site
- Choose a site (say "WikEmacs") for the current session.
- [C-c C-o] (or M-x mediawiki-open)
- Open a page. To edit the main page, type "Main Page". Make your edits.
- [C-x C-s] (or M-x mediawiki-save)
- Submit your modifications.
- [C-c] (or M-x mediawiki-save-and-bury)
- Submit modifications and bury the buffer.
Helpful Keybindings
- [C-return] (or M-x mediawiki-open-page-at-point)
- Follow or browse to a WikiLink.
- [M-g] (or M-x mediawiki-reload)
- Reload a page
Customizations
Word Wrapping
Mediawiki sites are generally unfilled . Newline character are not used for breaking paragraphs. Emacs does supports word wrap but from [Emacs 24].
Emacs 24
You may want to turn on word wrapping.
(setq mediawiki-mode-hook (lambda ()
(visual-line-mode 1)))
key binding for open current editing file in web browser?
bind Template:Function:mediawiki-browse to some key chord. The following uses Template:Key:C-c o
(define-key mediawiki-mode-map (kbd "C-c o") 'mediawiki-browse)