Emacs for wiki editing

Dokuwiki's XML-RPC interface allows remote editing outside a browser. Emacs is one editor that implements this.

The advantagegs of editing in a specialized program include ergonomic link searching and insertion and access to personalized editor settings.

A less feature-full alternative is to use GhostText to launch your preferred editor to edit within the browser's text area.

To edit dokuwiki in emacs, add the following to your emacs config (e.g. ~/.emacs.d/init.el). You will also need to install use-package-quelpa ¹⁾.

After evaluating the elisp, you should be able to push Alt + x and run lncd to open the wiki.

(setq wiki-user-name "YOURWIKIACCOUNTNAMEHERE")
(use-package dokuwiki
  :quelpa ((dokuwiki :fetcher github :repo "WillForan/emacs-dokuwiki") :upgrade t)
  :ensure t
  :hook
  ((dokuwiki-open-page .
    (lambda ()
      (dokuwiki-setup)
      (company-mode 1)
      (display-line-numbers-mode -1)
      (flyspell-mode 1)))))
 
(use-package dokuwiki-mode
  :quelpa ((dokuwiki-mode :fetcher github :repo "WillForan/emacs-dokuwiki-mode") :upgrade t)
  :ensure t
  :config (require 'outline-magic))
 
 
(defun lncd ()
  "Open lncd wiki."
  (interactive)
  (require 'dokuwiki)
  (dokuwiki-launch "http://lncd.pitt.edu/wiki/lib/exe/xmlrpc.php" wiki-user-name))
 

save your password WIKIUSER and WIKIPASSWORD in ~/.authinfo as a line like

machine http://lncd.pitt.edu/wiki/lib/exe/xmlrpc.php login WIKIUSER  password WIKIPASSWORD