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Emacs-wiki 2.70 is released. For the first time, I've tried to upload it to the emacs-wiki project area at http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/emacs-wiki/. It's also available (in both zip and tarball forms) from http://mwolson.org/static/dist/emacs-wiki. A Debian package has been prepared for the 2.70 release.

The following things have changed since emacs-wiki 2.69.

Significant compatibility-breaking changes

• If you have custom code that relies on the value of buffer-file-name at publish time (in header and footer code, for example), you must use `emacs-wiki-current-file' instead. If the code can be called at publish time or while displaying the file, use a construct like the following.

(or emacs-wiki-current-file buffer-file-name)

• Change all uses of `emacs-wiki-home-page' to `emacs-wiki-default-page'.
• Change all uses of `emacs-wiki-home-project' to `emacs-wiki-default-project'.

Changes

• emacs-wiki now has a Makefile. This means that it can be easily installed by doing `make' and `make install'. See the new README file for details, such as specifying which emacs binary to use for compilation.
• Emphasis should no longer be highlighted in <example>, <lisp>, or <verbatim> tags.
• Links will not be marked up if they are enclosed in double quotes.
• Centered text will be published properly, instead of being ignored.
• Setting emacs-wiki-recurse-directories and using nested subdirectories should work better than it previously did. In particular, the index will publish correctly.
• Links to relative pages will not be mangled by prepending the server-prefix.
• A potential issue with XBEL bookmark generation has been addressed.
• Underlines and sign markup can span multiple lines. All forms of emphasis should be more robust. Emphasis characters within extended links will always be ignored.
• <example> tags will be colored with emacs-wiki-verbatim-face.
• When hacking around with emacs-wiki, Wiki files should no longer be mangled and overwritten if an error happens during publish time. In particular, the save buffer prompt will not happen for temporary files.
• Font-lock works as expected in XEmacs, and it can be toggled with C-c C-l.
• Many non-MULE XEmacs fixes have been applied. Emacs-wiki should be completely usable in both XEmacs and non-MULE XEmacs, with the exceptions listed in the "XEmacs issues" section of this message.
• If "raw" is given as an argument to a <python> or <perl> tag, the output will not be surrounded with <pre>.
• If the characters >, <, or & are encountered in links, they will be replaced with the proper HTML entities rather than the decimal entities.
• emacs-wiki-publish-this-page has been bound to `C-c C-t'. It causes the current page to be published unconditionally to its configured publishing directory.
• The displaying of emphasized text should be significantly faster.
• A filename may be used for the value of `emacs-wiki-publishing-header' and `emacs-wiki-publishing-footer'. If this is the case, the file will be inserted into the published document. Otherwise, the contents of the header and footer variables will be inserted directly.
• If the japanese-egg input method is used, an attempt will be made to play nicely with it, at the expense of never unhighlighting the buffer.
• An attempt has been made to make emacs-wiki usable with Emacs20.
• Tags may be inserted interactively into a Wiki document by typing C-c TAB.
• It should be much easier to use international characters in WikiNames.

XEmacs issues

The following XEmacs problems are known to exist. A solution for them eludes me, so I would welcome patches. See http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=emacs-wiki.

• [#13928] <lisp> tags are not evaluated at display time, but they are published properly.
• [#13927] <lisp> tags in headers are not published properly. Oddly enough, <lisp> tags in footers still publish fine.

Other unfixed bugs

See http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=emacs-wiki for details.

• [#13741] Figure out a clean way to enable images in the description part of an extended link to have alt tags.
• [#13926] emacs-wiki-edit-link does the wrong thing with extended links.
• [#13929] Emacs21: Flyspell highlights WikiNames.