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Comment by bachmeier | Hacker News Reader

Maybe I'm not understanding, but it's pretty easy to edit the wiki from the command line in vim (I've used text editors for it before).

To edit a page, do an export and then a commit when you're done. It was easy enough to add this as a menu item in Emacs.

fossil wiki export foo.wiki foo.md

fossil wiki commit foo.wiki foo.md

You don't even need the temporary files:

    $ vim
    ...write, write, write...
    :w !fossil wiki create "The Foo Article" -
    :q!

Later:

    $ vim
    :r !fossil wiki export "The Foo Article" -
    ...write, write, write some more...
    :w !fossil wiki commit "The Foo Article" -

Wrapping all of that up into Vim macros would be a small matter for someone sufficiently interested.

Also, someone wanting to edit wiki-like docs in a text editor rather than in the web UI is probably going to find Fossil's embedded docs feature more useful anyway: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/embeddeddoc.wiki

Good catch! I really did look for this when I tried to use it years back.