>> And besides: the point here is that we *can't actually use WMD safely*, but
>> we **can use pagedown safely!**.
>>
->> So let's work on merging that pretty branch already shall we? :) --[[anarcat]]
+>> I tried the plugin: it works, and it works well. It's also fairly trivial to
+>> install the upstream showdown library, which is not shipped with the plugin
+>> (which alleviates all possible copyright problems). You can take test the
+>> plugin at <http://testwiki.anarc.at/>
+>>
+>> There are only three issues I could find during testing:
+>>
+>> 1. two previews are showed (the showdown one and the regular ikiwiki one),
+>> which can be confusing, but is still necessary because the showdown one
+>> doesn't parse ikiwiki directives.
+>> 2. the wiki needs to be rebuilt when the plugin is first activated for the
+>> stylesheets to regenerate. new wikis are not affected, and this can be
+>> deployed massively on farms without user intervention.
+>> 3. on large pages, the edit screen isn't in the first screen, so it's not
+>> obvious we're editing the page, which is also a little confusing - we
+>> would need an anchor in there... Update: a simple patch fixes that...
+>> but in a rather crude way:
+>>
+>> [[!format diff """
+--- a/IkiWiki/Render.pm
++++ b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
+@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ sub genpage ($$) {
+ my $actions=0;
+ if (length $config{cgiurl}) {
+ if (IkiWiki->can("cgi_editpage")) {
+- $template->param(editurl => cgiurl(do => "edit", page => $page));
++ $template->param(editurl => cgiurl(do => "edit", page => $page) . '#editcontent');
+ $actions++;
+ }
+ }
+"""]]
+>> ideally, we would show the edit box next to the page preview... And there's a way to do that too! But it requires some more CSS hackery, like [this](http://css-tricks.com/scrollfollow-sidebar/), for example:
+>>
+>> #wmd-preview {
+>> position: relative;
+>> margin: 15px auto;
+>> float: left;
+>> width: 50%;
+>> }
+>> form {
+>> position: fixed;
+>> margin-left: 50%;
+>> }
+>>
+>> But this is getting a little crazy and I need to sleep now.
+>>
+>> [[!template id=gitbranch branch=anarcat/pagedown author="[[anarcat]]"]]
+>>
+>> Anyways, let's work on merging that pretty branch already shall we? :) --[[anarcat]]