A guide to using the
The Tcler's WikiPlease do not overwrite this help page - use
Graffiti for experimenting.
Description edit
Contributions are welcome! Please help to keep the wiki organized by trying to find a relevant page when adding new information. If one can't be found, feel free to
create a new page.
The following help pages are currently available:
- About
- How to create your own page
- How to link to a page
- How to edit these wiki pages
- How to edit Wikit pages with Emacs
- Formatting Rules
- for the text that can be entered in a page... see the bottom of that page for information on how to create new pages.
- Wikit user names
- how to make your initials show up on the edit & recent changes
- How do Wiki Categories work
- How to update a page
- Wikit
- information about the system running this wiki
- wikitcl bug tracker

- this is the place to report bugs in this wiki system
- See the difference between versions of a page
- visit the page and click on the history link at the bottom (or side) of the page.
- an RSS feed

- of recent changes
Navigation edit
The page title is a link that, when clicked, displays a list of pages that link to the current page.
Reverting to an Older Version edit
If a page was spammed, or you want to undo an edit:
- Click on the History link for the page you want to revert
- Look for the version you want to revert to on the table with history information
- Click on the version number in the Revert to column
- Fill out the captcha
- You will be redirected to the editor page with the text of the selected version
- Save the page
Renaming a Page edit
Sadly, this functionality does not exist yet. If you feel up to the task, please
contribute some code
Deleting a Page edit
To "delete" a page for the purposes of not having it show up in search results, replace the content of the page with a single space. To nominate a page to be purged, add
Category DeleteMe to it.
Automation edit
Various facilities have been proposed/implemented for making the wiki content usable in various contexts, including consumption by client Tcl interpreters.
- Literate programming in a wiki
- proposals for a hybrid wiki/literate-programming environment
- TWiG
- extract and run scripts from wiki pages
- wiki-reaper
- extract and run scripts from wiki pages
- wish-reaper
- a Tk version of wiki-reaper