X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/3d163c03dd7e294cb3e4c36b71febeda8186f697..8b1aeb359661f235a1284252f74d878d090b2eb0:/doc/tips.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips.mdwn b/doc/tips.mdwn index e921cd459..c5faa45b3 100644 --- a/doc/tips.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ This page is a place to document tips and techniques for using ikiwiki. ----- +[[toc ]] + +## wikiannounce One thing I use ikiwiki for is the web pages for software projects I maintain. Each of my projects has a news page with an announcements feed, @@ -11,12 +13,30 @@ somewhat specific to dealing with Debian packages, and uses a special `announcedir` target in debian/rules, but the general idea could be useful. --[[Joey]] ----- +## blog script I should mention that I also have a -[blog](http://svn.kitenet.net/trunk/bin/wikiannounce) program that I use to +[blog](http://svn.kitenet.net/trunk/bin/blog) program that I use to write blog posts in a text editor. The first line I enter is used as the title, and it automatically comes up with a unique page name based on the title and handles all the details of posting to my blog. --[[Joey]] ----- +## using the web interface with a real text editor + +If you use Firefox or Iceweasel, the [It's All +Text](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125) extension allows +you to use a real text editor like Emacs or Vim to edit the contents of text +areas. This allows you to edit ikiwiki pages with a real text editor through +the ikiwiki web interface, rather than only with direct commit +access. --[[JoshTriplett]] + +## using ikiwiki as an issue tracker + +[[This_article|issue_tracking]] has some thoughts and tips on using ikiwiki +as a BTS, as is done on this very wiki to track [[bugs]] and [[todo]] items +for ikiwiki. + +## redirections for usedirs + +Want to turn on the `usedirs` setting on an existing wiki without breaking +all the links into it? Here's [[how|usedirs_redirections]].