editmoin(1)						      General Commands Manual						       editmoin(1)

NAME

       editmoin - Edit MoinMoin wiki pages in your favourite editor

SYNOPSIS

       editmoin http://moinmo.in/WikiSandBox

       editmoin -t SomeTemplate http://moinmo.in/WikiSandBox

DESCRIPTION

       editmoin  allows you to edit Moin wiki pages with your preferred editor. It means you can easily edit your pages, without the usual limita-
       tions of most web browsers' text areas.

       Its usage is simple and straightforward. Just provide moin's web page url as the first parameter. For example:

	      editmoin http://moinmo.in/WikiSandBox

       You can also use the -t parameter, to inform a template to base this page on. For example:

	      editmoin -t SomeTemplate http://moinmo.in/WikiSandBox

CHANGE SETTINGS

       While you're editing a page you'll notice that a few settings are available at the top of the page. These settings are preceded by a @ sym-
       bol,  and  are  immediately followed by the page body. These settings allow you to inform, for example, if you want subscribing users to be
       notified of your changes, or provide a comment for your change. Their functionality is simple, and their meaning, format, and usage  should
       be obvious to you.

SELECTING YOUR EDITOR

       The default editor is vi. If you want to use any other, just set the EDITOR environment variable accordingly.

SETTING YOUR USERNAME

       For  editmoin  to  be able to authenticate you against the moin site you're accessing, it must know your username.  For that, you must edit
       the file ~/.moin_users and insert URL ID pairs in it. For example:

	      http://moinmo.in YourUserName

	      http://wiki.ubuntu.com

	      http://example.com/moin/moin.cgi AnotherUserName

       If the server needs Basic HTTP Authentication you can use something like:

	      https://user:password@example.com/moin/moin.cgi YourUserName

       For using shortcuts (see below), and also for better control, defining URLs without usernames in that file is valid.

SETTING YOUR MOIN ID EXPLICITLY

       In remote times, authentication was done in moin using an ID, consisting mostly of numbers.  Nowadays moin was improved to work with a more
       traditional username/password scheme.  Even then, if the traditional username scheme mentioned above doesn't work for you, IDs may still be
       obtained after authentication, when the moin site sends your browser a MOIN_ID or MOIN_SESSION cookie.

       Setting moin IDs consists of changing a file named ~/.moin_ids and inserting URL ID pairs in it. For example:

	      http://moinmo.in 987654321.321.54321

	      http://wiki.canonical.com

	      http://example.com/moin/moin.cgi 123456789.123.12345

       If the server needs Basic HTTP Authentication you can use something like:

	      https://user:password@example.com/moin/moin.cgi 123456789.123.12345

       You can use a command like this to create a ~/.moin_ids file from your current Firefox profile:

       sqlite3 -separator ' ' .mozilla/*/*.default/cookies.sqlite 
	 "SELECT host,value FROM moz_cookies WHERE name LIKE 'MOIN_SESSION'" 
	 | sed 's_^_https://_' > ~/.moin_ids

       For using shortcuts (see below), and also for better control, defining URLs without IDs in that file is valid.

ALIASES

       Besides using shortcuts, it's also possible to define URL aliases in a file named ~/.moin_aliases.  This file  should  contain  lines  with
       pairs of "alias translation". For instance:

	      script http://moinmo.in/ScriptMarket

       With this line present, one may execute a command like follows:

	      editmoin script/EditMoin

       and get the expected result.

       Notice  that  unlike shortcuts, aliases must match exactly to be considered.  After the alias is translated, the resulting URL is also pro-
       cessed for matching shortcuts as specified below.

SHORTCUTS

       Instead of using the whole URL, you may use a shortcut, which consists of any  substring  of  an  URL  contained  in  ~/.moin_users  and/or
       ~/.moin_ids, followed by a slash and an optional subpath. For instance:

	      editmoin canonical/FrontPage

PROXIES

       If you're behind a proxy, set the http_proxy environment variable, as usual.

BACKUPS

       Editing a moin page may take several minutes, or even hours sometimes.  With this in mind, after you change some page it is saved in a file
       named ~/.moin_lastedit even before trying to commit it. This gives an extra protection against casual problems.	Note  that  this  file	is
       overwritten every time a page is successfuly changed, so save it somewhere if you want to keep it.

AUTHOR

       editmoin  was written by Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>. This manpage was written by Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> for the Debian
       GNU/Linux System (but may be used by others), based on editmoin's home page.

Martin Pitt							 February 16, 2008						       editmoin(1)