Review: Vanilla Angband

[Fuma]

To clear things out a little:
I did not say "drop the wiki, use vi". From what I read I thought that you wanted to use a wiki in order to display a simple page with links and reviews, which I think would be overkill. Also, I missed the fact that you were in the process of setting up the wiki already.

[Magnate]

Well, I have great sympathy with anyone who dislikes or has trouble with vi. I am old enough to have been told it's the king of editors, and young enough to have failed to master it. Same with emacs. I use nano/pico/whatever if I'm working in a console. There was a really nice editor called le which did colouring and indents and stuff (a bit like IDLE, the Python gui), but it never caught on (last time I looked it had some unresolvable dependency in Debian so I left it).

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I managed to set up my wiki in a single afternoon. It's not much to look at, and there's precious little content yet, but it was easy enough to get working - I'm not stupid, but I'm not a *nix guru either.

If you want to check it out, it's here

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[andrewdoull]

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I managed to set up my wiki in a single afternoon.
If you want to check it out, it's here

Is there any reason you chose a wiki for this particular project? I'm confident a blog would do the same e.g. I hold my opinions strongly one at a time, and tend to forget about them later

[TJA]

Magnate, i planned to use the wiki for similar things as you
I wanted to easy edit pages for my own and others reference ...

My wiki is still empty - mainly because i could not find a way to edit regular webpages with the wiki.

For example:

The page http://www.tja-server.de contains some links ...

Now, i want to edit this page with the wiki!

At best in a transparent way - the wiki should be invisible for the regular user of this site.
Editing would be done over wiki-pages at http://www.tja-server.de/mywiki
But any changes made should be visible on the normal index-page of the domain.


Mh. Not sure if i could explain what i mean


BTW, Andrew ... a Blog could possibly also handle my wishes, but i am not sure how seary to cross-link pages and use a markup-language.
Do you know a good Blog-Software (Linux)?

[TJA]

I am not sure anymore that a Wikki can do what i want.

I want something like this forum - i can just write an URL and in my webbrowser this will be shown as clickable link.

This way i want to easily manage whole pages of URLs - for use in a webbrowser.

If i do this in the wikki, it will destroy my page formating ...
If i write the URLs within "{{{", the URLs will not be clickable :-(

Any idea?

Ups - this is quite Off Topic.

[andrewdoull]

I am not sure anymore that a Wikki can do what i want.

I want something like this forum - i can just write an URL and in my webbrowser this will be shown as clickable link.

This way i want to easily manage whole pages of URLs - for use in a webbrowser.

If i do this in the wikki, it will destroy my page formating ...
If i write the URLs within "{{{", the URLs will not be clickable :-(

Any idea?

Ups - this is quite Off Topic.

Forget trying to host something yourself. Just set up a blog on www.blogspot.com (or any of the competition), create a links section (like I have on the right hand side of mine) and copy and paste the links in you want.

[Fuma]

Probably not too good and a hack'ish way, but maybe setting up a php script that just converts the URLs the way you want?

[TJA]

No, Andrew - i always do such things myself
I mean "try" to do them myself

FUME, thought of this already and am trying to combine a bash-Skript with my Wiki.
This way i could edit the list in a webbrowser and still have a revision history and also get a usefull HTML page to show ...

It seems, i need a HTML formatter from a forum.

We will see

[Magnate]

Is there any reason you chose a wiki for this particular project? I'm confident a blog would do the same e.g. I hold my opinions strongly one at a time, and tend to forget about them later

I thought about this quite a bit. My blog is like a diary - a chronological record of everything and nothing. It's not about anything in particular, in the way that yours is.

I know I could have used a blog for the whole thing, but I chose to separate the stuff which is about what's currently happening (blog) and the stuff which is my long-term opinions and interests (wiki). The former is really only of interest to my family and friends. The latter, when it gets a bit more populated, will hopefully be where I attract other people to read and post stuff.

The other reason was simply that I wanted to try setting up and managing a wiki. Which reminds me, I still haven't worked out how to let people log in and create new pages. Ho hum.

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[TJA]

I found something like "ReStructuredText" = RST that *may* be able to do what i want
Bad thing is, Wiki, Python and Apache do not seem to like my docutils Installation ... needs more time :-(