Please let me know if you have any problems with the ikiwiki plugin or any
feature requests.  I haven't been too active with it lately, but I'm still
around. :)

Cheers,
Chris


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Loyall, David <david.loyall@nebraska.gov>wrote:

> > Subject: Re: [O] converting people to Emacs and org-mode
> [snip]
> > Perhaps the web incarnations of org could help here too.
>
> I plan to bring attention to Emacs by publishing a wiki on our intranet.
>
> ikiwiki[1] is a simple perl based wiki compiler.  You maintain a tree of
> text documents in VCS, compile them into a network of linked HTML documents
> on demand (or on commit via a hook) and publish them on any http server (or
> whatever).
>
> Ikiwiki has an exporter framework that invokes different tools to export
> (or compile) different file formats.  For example, it is trivial to
> configure it to render foo.lisp and bar.c as foo.lisp.html and bar.c.html,
> which contain pretty renderings of the code.
>
> There is an org-mode plugin[2] for ikiwiki that I am experimenting with.
>  It invokes an Emacs session to call the org exporter.
>
> Like most wikis, ikiwiki also allows users to create and edit content via
> http.  (Being perl, ikiwiki uses (modern) CGI.)  The interface is a simple
> HTML text area.
>
> I intend to allow users to alter .org files via ikiwiki's web interface
> and have ikiwiki run them through the org exporter after each save (which
> is also a VCS commit).
>
> When users start to feel limited by the textbox, I'll suggest that they
> use Emacs and grant them direct file access to the VCS that stores all the
> .org files. (git in my case.)
>
> Wish me luck. :)
>
> Incidentally, I'd find an org-mode vs. Microsoft OneNote feature
> comparison matrix useful.  Anybody got that?
>
> Cheers,
> --Dave
>
> [1] http://ikiwiki.info/
> [2] https://github.com/chrismgray/ikiwiki-org-plugin
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