Mark> You Luddite You.... ;-) Yup, I'm a luddite. But I must admint, I've been saying that the web sucks for interactive work since the '94 WWW conference and probably before. It's just not there.
Mark> Most wikis will let you cutnpaste. copy the file to an emacs Mark> buffer, edit, and paste back? TWiki even has a "raw text" Mark> display button for the cut and you can click "edit" to paste it Mark> back. Which completely obviates the need for a wiki, since I can just open an emacs buffer (emacs is always running for me...) and just write a note and store it in a directory. Mark> It's not elegant. But then, neither is keeping all your Mark> documentation in unprotected flat files. Effective (in a Mark> limited way) yes. Elegant? And what is a wiki but a bunch of files? And how well protected are they? If I wanted, I could do RCS/CVS and checkout/checkin my files when I edit them. Not that hard to setup either. The point I was trying to make is that HTML is NOT a good interactive system where you need to do data entry. Especially data entry in large volume. Mark> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 09:48 -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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bblisa mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa Mark> !DSPAM:43595b25262369367420173! _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
