FAQ

Frequently asked questions about pmwiki-mode for Emacs

This section contains FAQ about pmwiki-mode for Emacs.

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Q:What is Emacs?

Emacs is an editor (among other things) that can be programmed, follow the link to find out more.

Q:What is pmwiki-mode?

pmwiki-mode is a special mode that has been created for Emacs and the mode has custom keyboard shortcuts and syntax highlighting to make it easier to edit wiki pages.

Q:Why should I use pmwiki-mode?

There are numerous reasons, here are some of them:

You can use a real editor to work on the source of a WikiPage.
It is much faster — you can change the page, save it and reload your browser to see the result and then directly keep editing the page.
Syntax highlighting of the PmWiki markup ?.
You have additional commands that allow you to:
- Saving a page under a new name (or to another WikiWikiWeb-site), see pmwiki-delete
- Renaming pages, see pmwiki-rename
- Deleting pages, see pmwiki-delete**

Q:Why was pmwiki-mode created?

pmwiki-mode was written for working with the Lyx wiki-wiki site, where LyX is a WYSIWYM document processor (What You See Is What You Mean). However, pmwiki-mode works with any PmWiki wiki engine.

Q:Who created pmwiki-mode?

pmwiki-mode was written by Christian Ridderström, who based it on another Emacs mode, SimpleWikiEditMode [www.emacswiki.org], that enables you to edit pages from the Emacs wiki-wiki site [www.emacswiki.org] from within in Emacs.

Q:What does pmwiki-mode look like?

Q:Can I use pmwiki-mode to edit pages on a wiki site that demands login?

Short answer: No. Long answer: depends. The URI transforms page describes how to enable "basic" authentification (which is something the web-server does). If you've got the standard pmwiki password enabled, you're out of luck.