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!!!Wiki and shell

Shell script/command is a bit like a wiki plugin.
A console with history is a bit like a long web page.
A wiki page could be a sequence of command, output.
Or each command output goes in separate page and a session history shows the N latest subpages.
Command line output has markup: return, tab, colors.
 
A regular VT is needed to use VI or other fullscreen programs.
I need more markup otherwise it's not worth the overhead of the webpage/wiki.
Possibilities:
* recognise certain data forms, add markup (e.g. http, mailto, date)
* recognize command or wrap command with dedicated filter that adds markup
* allow new commands to add markup in their output
!!Ideas for markup
* makes table a table
* add links to documentation
* add links that execute a command in the current shell)
* add image (e.g. Gnuplot output)
* add tag that tells JSPWiki to use a plugin (e.g. JfreeChart around some data).
* add menu of contextual actions
* add anchors that can be used to reuse output into new shell commands.
 Scenarios:
* click on prompt showing path, choose ls
* type lsof, output is decorated, pids show a menu of actions (pargs, stack, pwdx...)
* file prettifier annotates documentation with doc links etc.
* script displays information with local links and certain information as popups, linked pages
!!Bad scenarios
* How to handle tail?
* ls -l on big directory is useless, big, pollutes search results, how to get rid of it?
* vi and other interactive programs don't mix well

!!Terminal Emulation in JavaScript
Several terminal emulators are available which could be modified to enhance the text they display and or redirect it to web services.

* [Anyterm|http://anyterm.org/]

%%prettify 
{{{
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Anyterm&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot; src=&quot;anyterm.js&quot;&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;
  window.onload=function() {
    create_term(&quot;term1&quot;,&quot;%h (Anyterm%v)&quot;,25,80,&quot;&quot;,&quot;&quot;,50);
  };
  var on_close_goto_url = &quot;&quot;;
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;link rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; href=&quot;anyterm.css&quot;&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;term1&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
}}}
/%

The JavaScript terminal even handles applications like {{top}} nicely:
[anyterm.png]
!Extend anyterm
It would be nice to have escape characters in a terminal that allow shell scripts and programs to add hyperlinks to the text. Or javascript, for,instance to define a unix command. The user can then click on the text that is thus annotated and follow the hyperlink or see the annotation appear at the prompt


!! Writing to a wiki from the shell

If we have FUSE and a filesystem view of the wiki then it's easy to write to a wiki from the shell.
But one is not always root and some systems don't have fuse. So another idea would be to create a couple of commands that access a wiki and use environment variables.

Ideally curl would be used but authentication is not always easy. So it might be necessary to use a Java/XMLRPC API to acces the wikis:
*[WikiAPI|http://jwikiapi.sourceforge.net/]
* A REST API would be nice to update pages (cf. [WikiWiki#Eliminate Ugly URLs and Modal Views]


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