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1. 

   danlyke
   January 6th, 2009 at 11:14 pm #

   Pardon my emacs ignorance, but…

   GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2008-09-05 on vernadsky, modified by Ubuntu

   I copied mediawiki.el to /home/danlyke/.elisp

   Changed my ~/.emacs to have:

   (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/danlyke/.elisp/")
(require 'mediawiki)

   (Takes a while to startup now, I need to figure out how to speed that up) (No, this isn’t lisp)

   Edited the customize stuff:

   MediaWiki Site Default: Flutterby.net
   mediawiki-site-alist: '(("Flutterby.net" "http://www.flutterby.net/wiki/index.php" "danlyke" "password"))

   Note, “password” contains punctuation that might be confusing things, I didn’t know how to escape it properly. But no quotes, single or double. Anyway, save that.o

   Type in:

   m-x mediawiki-edit
http://www.flutterby.net/wiki/index.php?title=2008-11-24_Kitchen_Drawers

   (for example, I’ve also tried http://www.flutterby.net/2008-11-24_Kitchen_Drawers )

   Get “if: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil”

   Any clues?

   And this looks super useful!

2. 

   hexmode
   January 6th, 2009 at 11:44 pm #

   Thanks for giving it a test.

   I set up an account on your wiki so I could verify this works, but after setting the site parameters, mediawiki-site-alist should contain a fifth empty string — this is the “first page” that mediawiki.el will automatically dump you into after invoking

   M-x mediawiki-site RET

   (TODO: make it more robust when parsing the alist.)

   And since you didn’t mention it, you do need to invoke mediawiki-site. (TODO: automatically use the default site or, if there is only one site in the alist, use that site. I know, “default” implies this. Oh well.)

   After that, the command you should be using is

   M-x mediawiki-open RET 2008-11-24 Kitchen Drawers RET

   Note that you need to use -open not -edit and you should only type the page name, not the full url. (Underscores are optional, but MediaWiki is case sensitive.)

3. 

   danlyke
   January 7th, 2009 at 2:45 am #

   Not sure I understand, when I look in my ~/.emacs, I see:

   (custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(mediawiki-site-alist (quote (("Flutterby" "http://www.flutterby.net/wiki/index.php" "DanLyke" "password"))))
'(mediawiki-site-default "Flutterby"))

   When I do a M-x mediawiki-site RET Flutterby I get

   mediawiki-site-extract: Symbol's function definition is void: nil-blank-string

   Working off your “fifth empty string” note, I get the same if I do:

   '(mediawiki-site-alist (quote (("Flutterby" "http://www.flutterby.net/wiki/index.php" "DanLyke" "password" "MainPage"))))

   or replace “MainPage” with “”

   Thanks, and sorry I’m such an Emacs newbie, I hate that I’ve been using it for ten years and only have a few extra canned lines that I’ve stolen from various places in my .emacs file.

4. 

   danlyke
   January 7th, 2009 at 3:59 am #

   Doh. Also, replace “MainPage” with “Main_Page”.

   And is there some other library I may be missing?

5. 

   hexmode
   January 7th, 2009 at 4:48 am #

   No problem. It looks like the function nil-blank-string is only in CVS emacs, not Emacs22. Further, there is a bug you found in the default customizaation that I had for the site-alist. I’ll fix these and upload a new version momentarily

6. 

   hexmode
   January 7th, 2009 at 5:02 am #

   Doh! the function was part of em-unix.el (a part of eshell) in CVS emacs. Fixed it by eliminating the call. Please download again: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/mediawiki.el