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Emacs and Wiki (MoinMoin)

Post-call today after a longer than normal shift. After the dog walk I was too tired to do any real work. I've been looking into using Emacs for more, since if I can integrate more work into one application, it would be much easier. But neither emacs nor vim are particularly straightforward to use, so I have hesitated several times before on further exploration. Last night, during some down time, but not enough to sleep, I searched out more info on using Vi. I think it is manageable, at least when OBSD drops me into it by mistake I can maybe edit the file and easily quit now.

I started a simple emacs wiki on the powerbook in an effort to keep track of projects and how much time I spend on each project. I worked way too much these last few months, but I didn't do a good job of tracking how much time on each project. At this point it seems wise to do so---I have to prove my time spent on projects and need to estimate how much percent effort goes into each project. The problem I am having with emacs wiki is that each time I tell it to update the pages, it creates another page with the same name, but a further .html in the file name. Not sure why. The documentation for emacs is better than Vi, though I'm having trouble with this particular point. I've found MoinMoinWiki and it looks very happy. I may give this a try very soon to compare to emacs wiki.

Need to try the NB upgrade soon. Not brave enough just yet.