Adam Turoff on Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:09:26 -0400


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Re: Idea: Crossbreed a source code control system and a wiki


On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:27:25PM -0400, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:36:23PM -0400, mjd-perl-pm@plover.com wrote:
> > People would probably want to edit the code in their private editor,
> > and then paste the result into the wiki.  In a better world, there
> > would be a browser plugin that did this automatically.  An alternative
> > that requires an only slightly better world would be that you could
> > keep the source code on your disk as usual, edit it as usual, and have
> > an editor command that would post the changes to the wiki.
> 
> w3m uses $EDITOR on text entry boxes.

I was just about to mention that.  w3m + wiki + emacs/vi for code
development would vaguely approximate the immersive experience
found with a big honking IDE, yet be multiuser and collaborative.
Or at least it would be a closer approximation than CVS + emacs/vi
alone.

FWIW, I used to work on a system mostly written in FORTRAN where there
was one function/sub definition per file.  That part of the model *can*
work.

Z.

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