created: 20140406210404245 modified: 20140603230354347 tags: tips title: Editing Tiddlers with Emacs type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki Michael Fogleman has written an [[Emacs|http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/]] major mode called [[tid-mode|https://github.com/mwfogleman/tid-mode]], which is for editing TiddlyWiki .tid files. It is derived from text-mode, uses the useful minor modes org-struct and subword, and updates the modified times when you save a .tid file. He also wrote two helper functions for using TiddlyWiki in Emacs. The first opens a tiddlers directory in Dired; the second opens TiddlyWiki in the browser. ``` (defun open-wiki () "Opens a TiddlyWiki directory in Dired." (interactive) (dired "~/Dropbox/wiki/tiddlers/")) ``` ``` (defun browse-wiki () "Opens TiddlyWiki in the browser." (interactive) (browse-url "127.0.0.1:8080/")) ``` This latter function may require specifying a browser: ``` (setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic browse-url-generic-program "chromium") ``` You can bind either of these functions with the global-set-key function: ``` (global-set-key (kbd "C-c w") 'open-wiki) ``` At the moment, these are not integrated into tid-mode.