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Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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thanks! node.js

Any JS frameworks? Are you using Etherpad Lite?

  curl -O http://enterprisewiki.co/bin/app.min.js
  uglify -b | vim -
Looks like they're using Showdown for Markdown functionality, sharejs for concurrent editing, node-browserchannel for async communication... Or, maybe Closure's BrowserChannel?

I would love to see an end-to-end "here's how we built this" blog post for this kind of project. Very nicely done!

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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I'm having a problem toggling back and forth with [esc].

I am using Safari 5.1.7 ... hitting esc always toggles it from normal to markdown mode, but toggling back to normal is difficult ... I have to click around in the different panes a few times and keep hitting escape, and eventually one of them will work.

Is it indeed supposed to toggle back and forth with escape, pressed once, regardless of which pane your mouse is in ?

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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We may open source it later if we have time to clean up the code :)

I think we all would like non-clean and open source, compared to nothing :)

Absolutely agree. Other users might even help clean it up and expand it.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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post #33

I'm having a problem toggling back and forth with [esc]. I am using Safari 5.1.7 ... hitting esc always toggles it from normal to markdown mode, but toggling back to normal is difficult ... I have to click around in the different panes a few times and keep hitting escape, and eventually one of them will work. Is it indeed supposed to toggle back and forth with escape, pressed once, regardless of which pane your mouse…

sorry, fixed

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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post #33

I'm having a problem toggling back and forth with [esc]. I am using Safari 5.1.7 ... hitting esc always toggles it from normal to markdown mode, but toggling back to normal is difficult ... I have to click around in the different panes a few times and keep hitting escape, and eventually one of them will work. Is it indeed supposed to toggle back and forth with escape, pressed once, regardless of which pane your mouse…

This is due to a bug/weirdness with how Safari deals with using the ESC key for a hotkey with javascript.

Safari actually fires key events for the escape key hundreds of times per second.

This can cause some unexpected behavior if you don't do some clever javascript to handle this bug.

I came here to comment on the same issue - hitting escape to edit will work for the first toggle, but afterwards to say 'i'm done editing' the key handler gets called too many times and the markdown flickers on and off like crazy.

Also: escape is not really a normal key for 'edit this text'. It would be better to put an explicit 'edit' link, it's more understandable for your users.

Overall though I like how simple it is, and love the use of Markdown.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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This is pretty sweet, it's a shame it doesn't appear to be open source.

We may open source it later if we have time to clean up the code :)

Open source would be awesome, particularly because I really want to use this for a personal website. I have a feeling that that's probably not a use case I'd be happy with if I couldn't get in and modify things.

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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This looks great and I love the ease of use, however I just can't use it yet. I could spend a lot of time putting info into this but there's no question if it will be gone any day. For me to trust it enough to use it, I either need to be able to install it to my own server or want to pay for it. You should really add a minimal homepage with an email signup as well if you intend to work on this more. The product is se…

Oh and we just added a link to an email signup in the text:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdGcHE...

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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thanks! node.js

Any JS frameworks? Are you using Etherpad Lite?

share.js (and its dependencies - redis, socket.io), prettify, showdown, etc. it's really simple, not much to write-up I'm afraid :)

Re: Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki

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Can you enable slashes in keys? It would be nice to get subpages by adding a link to enterprisewiki.co/wiki/myguid/somepage from my wiki. Still secret, but much better for organization, and you can add it with one trivial change.

meanwhile you can use /wiki/password-page-name
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