theamnesic / edith

Web notepad, like a wiki, saves at avery key stroke

Edith

A quick small wiki, perfect for pasting quick texts or code between friends.

Don't worry about saving, it saves at every key stroke. Paste and forget! Think of it as a magic web notepad.

Try it out at http://edit.sunfox.org/any-page-name.

Usage

• /any-page-name: type what you want, it's saved automagically!
• /any-page-name.txt: raw text version.
• /any-page-name.html: HTML version through the Markdown syntax.

Keyboard shortcut cltr-e switches from edit mode to HTML mode.

Concurrent Access

So that multiple users can see live changes at the same time and hopefully not overwrite each other's stuff Edith uses Google Mobwrite.

Favicon

The favicon changes as the page updates and is also an indicator that the page is currently saving or not.

REST

Edith is also a RESTful API. So go ahead and try to PUT or DELETE on these URLs.

Install it yourself

Download the files. For example, using git:

$ git clone https://github.com/sunny/edith.git
$ cd edith

Make the data directory writeable:

$ chmod a+w data

Tell your HTTP server to redirect pages not found to index.php. If you are using Apache:

$ cp htaccess.example .htaccess

Finally, you will need Node to build the JavaScript. Install CoffeeScript and UglifyJS:

$ npm install -g coffee-script uglify-js

You can now compile, compress and generate source maps for the JavaScript:

$ cake build

Further use

This section is only for ninjas and such.

Configuration

Copy config.example.php to config.php and read the examples to use your own configuration file.

Concurrent Access

You can activate Google Mobwrite and define your own endpoint in config.php.

Read-only pages

To make pages read-only, just make them non-writeable on disk:

$ chmod -w data/foo.txt

They will then be shown using the HTML representation through Markdown instead.

Also, if you make the data directory itself non-writeable you can deactivate the creation of new pages.

URLs

You may use any file name you like as long as it doesn't end like a representation (.txt or .html).

If you prefer /page.js/txt URLs instead of /page.js.txt, the config file has a setting for you.

Rack

If you would prefer to serve the app using Rack, a config.ru is created to use the rack-legacy and rack-rewrite gems.

Tasks

Run $ cake to see more tasks for development.

Contributing

You are welcome to contribute by adding issues and forking the code on Github.

Licence

Edith is released under the MIT License.