Re: [gNewSense-users] Formatting and update on a new script

[Chris Andrew]

Good work.  Sounds promising.

Chris.

On 23/03/2008, Bake Timmons <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I done an ls -R > file  to list all. If someone mail me his result i
>  > would to comparing it.
>
>  I emailed to Marco my copy of the kernel tree he requested.
>
>  I also would like to report completing the zorro drivers section.  What
>  makes this cool is that all of the posting was done as a *batch* upload
>  of mostly *generated* markup from within from an Emacs session.  I did
>  not have to touch a web browser, except to *verify* this experiment.  My
>  only issue was not realizing that it is best to include something like a
>  file comment as preformatted pmwiki markup, i.e., instead of including
>  it raw, prepend a space character to every line of the comment text.
>  Otherwise, things like pound signs (#) starting a line get messed up.
>
>  Two other features yet to be implemented:
>
>  * Automatically updating the "parent" section page containing the
>   section worked on, e.g., updating the zorro entry in the drivers page.
>   This feature is more complicated since it is a revision of an existing
>   page as opposed to an initial upload.  It also assumes that our
>   completed pages have been updated with the URLs formatted according to
>   Christophe's revisions to TableFormat.sh.
>
>  * Automatically concluding the upload with a download and presentation
>   within Emacs of the renderings of the newly updated pages.  One cool
>   application of this would be to have an automatic "diff" of these
>   renderings against the pre-upload generated data, which would
>   *guarantee* perfect results.  A related option of course would be to
>   have a *preview* page of generated renderings before doing the
>   "permanent" upload.
>
>  I am now polishing the code up a bit before posting it.  I should state
>  that this code does not replace TableFormat.sh but is just a different
>  approach that some users, particularly those who have used Emacs, might
>  want to try.
>
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