Installed. Now what?

[jsgarvin]

The README claims, "you don't have to know emacs to use it with Xiki". As a long time vi user who has no experience what-so-ever with emacs, this seemed promising.

I followed all the steps to install, but Step 3 leaves me completely hanging. If I just run emacs from a term window, it opens a new window and says "Welcome to GNU Emacs..." Somehow I managed to click something (no idea what) that created a split window that says "el4r started... etc. etc.". Now what? How do I get from here to using Xiki?

I can run the xiki shell command to do things like xiki status (it's running), and xiki docs/Introduction, but none of this tells me how to get to a point where I can do anything.

How about a step 4 in the README for those of us that truly don't "know emacs" that gets us from step 3 to a $ echo 'Hello, World!' example? I'm sure I'm just a command/click or two away from being able to do the cool stuff in the screencasts, but I have no idea where to go from here.

[trogdoro]

As a long time vi user who has no experience what-so-ever with emacs, this seemed promising.

Side note, you may want to try out "Evil mode". It gives you vim keys inside of emacs. It's apparently better than Viper mode, which I'd recommended in past emails.

Somehow I managed to click something (no idea what) that created a split window that says "el4r started... etc. etc.".

It's supposed to pop up with a Xiki welcome message when it starts up. That may be buggy though that's showing something else. Look in the "Window" menu in the menu bar, and you may see the "@welcome" view.

Now what? How do I get from here to using Xiki?

If it worked, you should be able to do what you saw in the screencasts. You should be able to type stuff and control-click to run it. Shell commands, url's, file paths, sql statements, menus, etc.

You should be able to do this in any file (try creating a new buffer or file using the "File" menu in the menu bar. If you want coloring and double-clicking to launch enabled, give the file (or buffer) a ".notes" extension.

Try typing "all" and control-clicking to see a list of all menus.

I'm sure I'm just a command/click or two away from being able to do the cool stuff in the screencasts, but I have no idea where to go from here.

A few on this list have suggested there be a tutorial as a way of intro-ing people. Seems like a solid idea. I've started on having one, but haven't finished it. It'll be suggested to users the first few times they run Xiki. And you'll be able to type "tutorial" on a blank line and control-click to kick it off. It will walk you through doing basic Xiki things.

--Craig

[jasonm23]

Whatever you've started, tutorial wise, please just throw it in the wiki, there's no need to draw us a new octopus first ;)

[matejkramny]

Hmm can't get it to work..

Using OSX and emacs isn't mentioning anything about xiki.. Also tried on ubuntu laptop, where same thing happens.

What do I do to make xiki work?

[serkanyersen]

unfortunately there seems to be a bug with the script. I had to run this command to start it manually

cd xiki-master
emacs -nw -Q -l misc/emacs/start_xiki.el

When you open this it will ask you to select a .profile file and include its bin directory into the file, you need to do source ~/.profile after that and it should work by just typing xsh after that.

@trogdoro ./bin/xsh just opens an empty emacs buffer. shouldn't this be fixed?