Emacs Hack: mediawiki.el
20 July 2009
I’ve gotten some feedback on the mediawiki mode I’ve been working on. So I’m releasing a new version. Some highlights:
- Now works with HTTP Auth (I’ll write a seperate post on how Emacs handles credentials for HTTP Authentication).
- Introduced tab-completion of sites. If you have multiple MW sites set up that you work on, this makes switching between sites super-easy.
- Started working on making it more XEmacs compatible. As far as I can tell, XEmacs lacks the Unicode support that GNU Emacs has. The released version of XEmacs also lacks the POSIX character classes for regular expressions and ships with a very out-dated version of url.el. All these combine to make it very difficult. But do-able. I’m surprised there are still XEmacs users, but if it doesn’t cause me too much pain, I’ll help them out.
- Misc other clean up (including making the url.el wrappers much better).