[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: project switching?

[chris]

Sacha Chua <address@hidden> writes:

> Welcome back! =)
>
Nice to be back!  This is some *really* nice stuff you've done here.

And this time I am a lot more familiar with lispy things, so hopefully I
can be more helpful. :)

I've also been browsing around on your site, it has been very useful. :)

I saw the IRC log re:planner-muse - it seems you must be doing
something right, if a port to different publishing framework would be
so (relatively) straightforward.

>> the Planner project. Why didn't customize show the values, if it
>> knew they were set? I had to print them to a buffer and cut and
>> paste into customize - it was big string with lots of hairy regexes
>> and sublists, obviously created by Planner?
>
>Odd. It displays here. Try updating to the latest Planner. =)

Oh, it displays now - I yanked them into customize and saved.

I thought it odd, too.  All that was in my .emacs, but the loading of
Planner, EmacsWiki, etc. was commented out.  I un-commented then
evaluated them, and opened a planner page.

>> Now, however, I would like to keep separate Planner projects, and
>> separate journals/wikis in entirely separate directory trees.
>
> We haven't quite figured out what an elegant way to do this is,
> but http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerModeContrib has a
> Lisp snippet from RaymondZeitler which might do the trick.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
I've gotten it; I'll give it a try and report back, thanks.

I've posted another message with my understanding of how the
emacs-wiki side seems to go about project switching - I figured I
should start there since Planner depends on EmacsWiki.

But now I wonder: does Planner simply avail itself of EmacsWiki
features, but otherwise benignly ignore it?

I.e., in a perfect world(TM) could one be working on a non-Planner
wiki project and a Planner project, simultaneously?

That might be useful, and it would certainly make Planner that much
more 'portable' between publishing environments.

>> year - if I was to get the latest arch, would my stuff be likely to
>> break in anyway?
>
> I don't think you'll get major breakage, but back up a copy of your
> work anyway. =)
>
I've the stable arch - woot!

I fired up my old project, and everything picked up right where I left
off, and publishing seems to work.

The new 'hierarchical' stuff was the kicker - I _like_ that!

FTR, I've read the ChangeLog, and though you've obviously been rather
busy on it, there doesn't appear to be anything too scary.  I noticed
the log begins March, I'm guessing that is when you switched to GNU
Arch.

-- 
Simplicity of implementation is generally not a value, because the
elegance of use is what matters to users.
-- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp 2002-08-02 21:11:54 PST