Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs

Re:Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs by nyc111 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:03AM (#41446615)

Thanks for posting this. I downloaded and was playing with it. But I'm puzzled about new note creation. When I type in the title next to the equal sign, I need to move the cursor below the date line to compose the note. Shouldn't the date line be on top?

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Re:Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs by setopt on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:39AM (#41447055)

What I personally do is to first type the title, then press either M-> or END to jump to the end of the buffer, and then just keep typing from there.

You can however place the date above the title if you want:

    (setq howm-view-title-header "*")
    (setq howm-template "%date %file\n* %title%cursor")

By adjusting the new file template, you can type the title and then just press enter and keep typing the content from there. Howm still understands where the title of the note is, since it looks for the first title header.

(If you like the default equal signs, you can skip the first setq above and replace "*" with "=" in the template.)

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Re:Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs by nyc111 on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @01:49PM (#41448487)

Thanks, this was helpful.

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Re:Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs by artsi0m on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @09:16PM (#41452551)

Date line could be put everywhere you want or entirely deleted. You are absolutely free in this aspect of usage of howm.

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