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mwjed

abstract

the mediawiki plugin for jEdit lets you edit pages on mediawiki servers. pages can be loaded into jEdit from within a browser. it provides syntax-highlighting and some simple wiki-specific text modification commands. following links within pages to other pages is supported, too.

the plugin has been tested on debian/sid, mac os x 10.4 and windows XP. it may work on other operating systems, too - write once, test anywhere ;)

similar eclipse plugins can be found here and here.

contact

the dot gray at gmx dot net (write in english or german)

license

the mediawiki plugin is released under the GPL.

requirements

plugin dependencies

download

see changes.txt for changes in version 0.10.18.

installation

assuming you have already installed the JRE and jEdit:

1. start jEdit, open Plugins/Plugin Manager and install the XML-plugin.
2. download MwJed-0.10.18.zip from the download section above.
3. unzip MwJed-0.10.18.zip into the jars directory of your jEdit installation
   (on unixoid systems like linux or mac os x this is $HOME/.jedit/jars).
4. restart jEdit
5. drag this edit-bookmarklet into the toolbar of your browser. it has been tested on firefox and safari, if it does not work, you can try this-bookmarklet instead.

customization

additional wiki

1. unpack $HOME/.jedit/jars/mwapi.jar into a new directory
2. look for commons.family and commons.site in this directory
3. create a directory $HOME/.jedit/mwjed/_family
4. copy commons.family to $HOME/.jedit/mwjed/_family/NAME.family
5. copy commons.site to $HOME/.jedit/mwjed/_family/NAME.site
6. adapt these two files. attention: these file have quite a bit different format than the old .bsh-files
7. restart jEdit

compilation

this is not necessary for normal users.

1. in addition to the above requirements you need a full 1.4.2 JDK and apache ant >= 1.6.2 so download and install them.
2. download MwJed-0.10.18-src.zip
3. unzip MwJed-0.10.18-src.zip. this will create a new directory named MwJed.
4. cd into the MwJed directory
5. edit the build.properties: fix jedit.install and jedit.user. if you don't have jikes installed, change build.compiler to javac.
6. use ant to build, ant -p will print out possible targets.

quirks

some known "features" still exist. if you have problems not mentioned below, choose Utilities/Troubleshooting/Activity Log from the jEdit menu and look for lines beginning with MwJedPlugin:

• loading article while being logged out, logging in and then saving it resets the watch-flag to the default value from the options pane.
• loading an article while another article is open with the same name, but different character case overwrites the already open article buffer on windows.
• following links containing URL-encoded characters is not supported.
• an updated syntax-highlighting is not installed automatically, use the install action if something looks fishy.
• existing keyword shortcuts will not be overwritten automatically, if some are missing configure them in Utilities/Global options/Shortcuts/Plugin: MwJed
• never change the file encoding for your buffers.
• never change the first line of a buffer!
• the content of locked pages cannot be read from the server.
• the syntax-highlighting mode installation code ist not 100% foolproof.

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