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The time has come for me to release emacs-wiki version 2.64. The tarball may be found at http://mwolson.org/static/dist/emacs-wiki/emacs-wiki-2.64.tar.gz. I plan to make the Debian package for this one.

This version includes many bug fixes. A list of them follows. Please let me know if these problems persist.

• Fix space escaping, especially for `emacs-wiki-edit-link-at-point'.
• Make `emacs-wiki-rename-link-at-point' work properly. Links will now be renamed throughout the current document.
• `emacs-wiki-journal-category-alist' fix
• Lists in emacs-wiki-journel.el will have one space in front of them to comply with the new Muse markup for lists. Eventually this change will be propagated to all of emacs-wiki, and transition functions will be provided at that time.
• A more compact format for new entries in emacs-wiki-journal.el has been implemented.
• Fix several issues with old versions of Emacs that showed up during byte compilation. One of these was an error that may have made emacs-wiki-id.el unusable beforehand.
• Several files were added to the "contrib" subdirectory so that users will not have to search the internet for them. They are: cgi.el, httpd.el, pcomplete.el, and table.el. Thanks to Frederik Fouvry for the heads up.
• Fix problem when trying to switch to a project whose `emacs-wiki-default-page' does not exist, as suggested by Sun Yijiang.
• The info documentation was seriously in need of updating, so I hacked it up quite a bit. It's finally something that I feel good about having my name on :^) .
• Include the new file emacs-wiki-pgg.el, which allows you to encrypt sections of a wiki project. Many thanks to Anirudh Sasikumar for his contribution and the addition of the Encryption node to the texinfo documentation.
• Do not recurse into subdirectories by default. This should hopefully fix problems encountered by those who want to define projects in `emacs-wiki-projects' that are nested. If you want the old behavior, set `emacs-wiki-recurse-directories' to non-nil.
• Fix problem concerning processing of hard spaces around emphasized text by changing all uses of " \t\n" in regexps to "[:space:]" and likewise " \t" becomes "[:blank:]".
• Disable flyspell-mode temporarily during publish time since it serves no purpose then. This should speed things up if you use flyspell on your wiki pages, since it does not have to spawn so many new ispell processes anymore.
• Do not escape spaces in the second (description) part of extended links. Only escape them in the link itself. PLEASE read the Compatibility note to learn how to correct the bad behavior of previous versions of emacs-wiki.

Compatibility note

This note regards the change in escaping of spaces in extended links. If you are a Planner user, you will definitely want to read this.

The old behavior of emacs-wiki was to escape spaces in the second part of extended links. This was not good since the link description is allowed to have spaces in it. Now that I have changed this behavior, you will probably notice that many of your planner tasks show "%20" in them.

To correct this, I have made a new file called emacs-wiki-transition.el. You will probably only need to use this file once, so do

M-x load-file
"path/to/emacs-wiki/emacs-wiki-transition.el"

to load it.

These functions have all been tested by me, so I am quite certain that they will work properly. You will be prompted once at the beginning of each operation if you call one of the functions. Typing "no" will abort the process. You might want to back up your project directories first and look at the output of "diff -u backup changed_dir" afterward for each project if you are concerned about accidental changes being made.

At this point, you will need to decide the scope of the changes you would like to make.

• If you want to apply the changing of "%20" to " " (space) in the second part of extended links to all wiki files in all projects, type

   M-x emacs-wiki-tr-extended-link-spaces-all-projects
   

• If you want to do this for one project, type

   M-:
   (emacs-wiki-tr-extended-link-spaces-one-project "name-of-project")
   

• If you want to do this for one file, type

   M-:
   (emacs-wiki-tr-extended-link-spaces-one-file "name-of-file")
   

• If you want to do this in the current buffer, type

   M-x emacs-wiki-tr-extended-link-spaces-this-buffer
   

Future plans

For emacs-wiki, I will be mostly be adding to documentation and fixing bugs. I intend to write documentation for Muse that will be included in my branch of Muse. There are still one or two kinks that need to be worked out as well.

Once enough documentation is written, I will make a branch of emacs-wiki and begin re-writing it in terms of Muse functionality. Once that is complete (or reasonably started), it might be nice to port over Wiki functionality and the like to Muse.

Here's a note for those of you who have written patches or functionality for emacs-wiki that include more than 15 lines of source code being changed (or you made a new work). I should be contacting you shortly if I need to use your work in making Muse. Any work that is contributed to Muse will have to have its copyright signed over to the Free Software Foundation.

Since I will be writing the documentation first, I will probably contact documentation contributors this month. It may take a month or two for me to start contacting source code contributors. Thanks again to the many contributors who have helped shape emacs-wiki and Muse into what they are now.