… To put it short: an Ikiwiki newbie.

Wikis

Currently, I run a few Ikiwiki instances. Namely:

Preferences

I prefer to use Lynx along with Emacs (via emacsclient) to work with the wikis. (Note the “Local variables” section below.)

The things I dislike in the wiki engines are:

  • the use of home-brew specialized version control systems — while there're a lot of much more developed general purpose ones;

  • oversimplified syntax — which (to some extent) precludes more sophisticated forms of automated processing; in particular, this forces one to reformat the material, once complete, to, say, prepare a book, or an article, or slides.

Out of all the wiki engines I'm familiar with, only Ikiwiki is free of the first of these. I hope that it will support more elaborate syntaxes eventually.


Local variables:
mode: markdown
coding: utf-8
fill-column: 64
ispell-local-dictionary: "american"
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