Development

Testing and development of pmwiki-mode

This page is dedicated to development and testing of the PmWiki-mode ?. You are welcome to contribute of course.

Check out the new version of PmWiki-mode.

The download-links below point to development-archives, that include some additional files. At the time of writing this, the archive contains the following additional files:

testWikiPage - a test-file in wiki-format. It is sometimes useful to open this file in Emacs and do M-x pmwiki-mode.
testing-pmwiki.el - small pieces of lisp code for testing.
make-archive.sh - script for assembling the archive.

Download

The releases below are the development versions of the archives, i.e. with some extra files. Also see PmWikiModeChanges.

Release 1.3 (tar.gz)
Release 1.1 (tar.gz)

New features

Christian: Since I primarily designed this mode for working with the Lyx Wiki, I don't really plan to implement more features. However, if I receive nice and concise bug reports, I might try to fix them :-)

See PmWikiModeNewFeatures.

LukStafi: I'm working currently on my "branch" of pmwiki-mode.

Current features:

only supports [[ ... ]] links but does it well, including anchors
`mmm-mode' multi-mode support
using url package on emacs 22 (which supports authentication, https and more), with augmented support for redirections
menu with table of contents (and soon table of pages)

Pages about new mode:

Limitations, known problems and bugs

Add bugs below... and send a mail to the maintainer. Also see PmWikiModeChanges.

Sometimes follow-link (C-c C-g) "hangs" inside the function thing-at-point-looking-at(). I have no idea why this happens, and after a while the problem might just disappear. ... actually, this seems to happen when there are links that are to compliated, see PmWikiModeBugCompliatedLink
There is no mechanism for preventing collisions, i.e. two people may be editing the same page and therefore overwrite the other persons changes when saving.
It is not possible to edit password-protected pages

Adding Basic Authentication to pmwiki-mode

Svogel You have to patch http-post.el and pmwiki.el with the patches below (used with pmwiki 1.4 pre). chr: I think I've integrated the patch that could be found below into 1.4-pre1.

One drawback is that pmwiki-reload will not work with passwords.

You can now open pages which are password protected with (M-x pmwiki-open):

http://username:password@www.xyz.com/Main/HomePage

Where username is not used in PmWiki.

Bug Reports

Saving pages does not work in 1.4-pre2 (patch included)

Hi Christian!
I was not able to save pages with pmwiki-mode 1.4-pre2. It worked after I changed the parameter list constructed in pmwiki-default-save-function from

                      (list (cons "pagename" pagename)
                            (cons "action" "post")
                            (cons "diffclass" diffclass)
                            (cons "author" pmwiki-author)
                            (cons "text" (buffer-string)))

		      (list (cons "n" pagename)
			    (cons "action" "edit")
			    (cons "diffclass" diffclass)
			    (cons "author" pmwiki-author)
			    (cons "text" (buffer-string))
			    (cons "post" "post"))

I think you have to patch it this way, since the PmWiki.ChangeLog says "Changed ?pagename= to ?n= for urls" for Version 2.0.beta8 (13-Dec-2004). And, according to PmWiki.AvailableActions, there is no action called post.
Regards, Christoph Lange, July 14th 2005