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node.exe tiddlywiki.js [data directory] [command [options]] On Jan 4, 2017 12:00 AM, "Arlen Beiler" <[email protected]> wrote: > If you do not specify a directory as the first argument after > tiddlywiki.js, it will use the current directory. Most of the commands use > that directory. So I recommend you set one. > > On Jan 3, 2017 11:56 PM, "Arlen Beiler" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you specify --init or --load instead --server, then tiddlywiki.js will >> make that the data directory. Then you specify that directory when you >> specify --server and it will serve the files from that folder. >> >> You can find more info on TiddlyWiki.com or by exploring the code. >> >> On Jan 3, 2017 10:55 PM, "'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki" < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> In your example, what is "../data/wiki1" and where does it come from? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Mark >>> >>> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 7:26:43 PM UTC-8, Arlen Beiler wrote: >>>> >>>> Anything is possible over HTTP. How are you going to save changes? >>>> >>>> From reading your email, I guess you don't know that you can just >>>> download any tag or the master from the TiddlyWiki GitHub repository, drop >>>> node.exe into it and call "node.exe tiddlywiki.js ../data/wiki1 --server" >>>> and your good to go. Easy on Windows, don't know about Linux or Mac, but >>>> you're a software developer :) >>>> >>>> (At first I was going to use the stock "I guess you know...") :-) >>>> >>>> Also several of us are working on serving multiple wikis as separate >>>> folders instead of seperate server instances. >>>> >>>> https://gist.github.com/Arlen22/bbd852f68e328165e49f >>>> >>>> Hope that helps. >>>> >>>> On Jan 3, 2017 7:50 PM, "Evade Flow" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> > is there some way I can access/modify this collection of files using >>>>> only git and a browser? >>>>> >>>>> Driving home this evening, I realized this was a bit of a silly >>>>> question for somebody who professes to be a software developer by trade to >>>>> ask—doh! (Can you tell I'm not a web developer?) Looking at the files >>>>> processed by tiddlywiki+NodeJS, I see that *none* of them are HTML. >>>>> It truly is "tiddlers all the way down", so... *something* has to >>>>> convert all those .tid files to HTML so the browser can display them. >>>>> >>>>> I guess I should rephrase my question as: is there some way of serving >>>>> multi-file TW content that requires less setup work than NodeJS? I'm >>>>> thinking about how Python contains builtin modules that let you run >>>>> something like this in a folder: >>>>> >>>>> $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> For me, this would be a big win because (as it happens) just about >>>>> every machine I work on already has Python installed. And they *all* >>>>> have Perl, which I believe has a similar (built-in) capability[?] So it >>>>> would be "one less thing" to worry about it when configuring a new >>>>> environment. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 4:44:43 PM UTC-5, Evade Flow wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I've been experimenting with TiddlyWiki and NodeJS, and discovered >>>>>> that 'importing' my mono-html file (using tiddlywiki --load) causes >>>>>> it to be converted into a bunch of discrete files. Further experiments >>>>>> reveal that it is possible—seemingly, at least—to sync these files (and >>>>>> hence, my entire wiki) to multiple machines using git push/pull. The >>>>>> one catch is: it appears that the only way to actually *use* a >>>>>> TiddlyWiki structured this way is to serve it using NodeJS? Is that >>>>>> correct? Or... is there some way I can access/modify this collection of >>>>>> files using only git and a browser? >>>>>> >>>>>> I ask because the setup I'm fumbling my way towards seems a bit... >>>>>> cumbersome. I'm a software developer by trade, so sync'ing git repos to >>>>>> multiple machines comes as naturally as breathing. In contrast, doing a >>>>>> local install of Node + npm + tiddlywiki on each machine I want to access >>>>>> the data from feels like a lot of extra effort. I use Windows and Linux >>>>>> at >>>>>> work, and OS X at home, and I'd rather not bother figuring out the >>>>>> nuances >>>>>> of how to do that dance on all three platforms—especially given that I >>>>>> don't have admin/root access on all the machines I'd like to access my >>>>>> wiki(s) from. >>>>>> >>>>>> I already have a *killer* setup for managing my myriad config files ( >>>>>> .vimrc, .zshrc, .tmux.conf, etc.) and various plugins using myrepos >>>>>> <https://myrepos.branchable.com/> and vcsh >>>>>> <https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh>. *Everything* is stored in git, so >>>>>> I can sync my setup around to whatever machines I want. It would be >>>>>> enormously helpful if I could do the same with my TiddlyWiki(s). Is this >>>>>> possible? >>>>>> >>>>>> *NOTE*: After trying it a few times, I don't have much interest in >>>>>> trying to sync changes to monolithic TW files. The mono-HTML files are >>>>>> huge, and the diffs contain so much 'noise' that trying to merge updates >>>>>> from multiple machines seems like an impossibility. (Perhaps I'll find >>>>>> that >>>>>> the multi-file layout has quirks/pitfalls of its own, but so far, it >>>>>> seems >>>>>> really easy to understand and reason about...) >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e5c24183-b6aa-4 >>>>> 3a1-a682-2fc8137f4fab%40googlegroups.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e5c24183-b6aa-43a1-a682-2fc8137f4fab%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >>> gid/tiddlywiki/3a14ab02-3b7a-43c0-8716-f0e466d8a4dd%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3a14ab02-3b7a-43c0-8716-f0e466d8a4dd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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