[Moin-user] Viewing/editing MoinMoin wikis using a decent editor?

[Steve McIntyre]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:40:30AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>Using HTML <textarea> widgets to edit large amounts of text is - at best -
>cumbersome.  I thought I might have better luck editing MoinMoin wiki pages
>through Emacs/w3.  I gave it a peek quick look, but the Wiki appearance
>sucks badly when viewed through w3.  Is that a CSS issue or is there
>something else amiss?
>
>The thought occurs to me that a special purpose script which visits the
>EditText link, saves the text to a file then invokes gnuclient might work
>(the reverses the process when gnuclient exits), but that also seems pretty
>cumbersome,
>
>Does anyone have other ideas for avoiding my browser's <textarea> widget
>when editing wiki pages?

I use Mozex under Firefox - you can configure an external editor for
text areas. mozex.mozdev.org for more details.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
"I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm
 afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra
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