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

[miah]

uhm.. Couldn't you just use emacs/vim as your input method to the
website?  Lets see what google says..

You could use Emacs Muse..
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseMode

You could set your keybindings in Firefox to emacs as well..

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Emacs_Keybindings_(Firefox)

-miah

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:48:38AM -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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