'''Command line client of MoinMoin'''

The existing MoinMoin editing model is GUI based.
It would be good if we could have a command line client that can do the authentication, check out files, edit by vi or emacs and then check in. This would support automation of MoinMoin wiki page editing.
I believe it is very useful to users who are command-line oriented.

The Perl [[http://search.cpan.org/~markj/WWW-Mediawiki-Client-0.27/bin/mvs|MediaWiki command line client]] is an example of such tool.

In theory, you already can do a lot with XML-RPC (see `MoinMoin/scripts/xmlrpc-tools`).
But for security reasons put page is still disabled and authentication does not work (yet).

The EditMoin client does that for older versions of MoinMoin.

= Discussion =
authentication is implemented into 1.6.

You can do use the command line to add pages, see the following example

{{{#!python
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
from MoinMoin.request import request_cli
from MoinMoin.PageEditor import PageEditor
request = request_cli.Request()
pagename = u'TestPage'
page = PageEditor(request, pagename)
text = u"That's an example!\n"
try:
    page.saveText(text, 0)
except page.Unchanged:
    print "You did not change the page content, not saved!"
}}}

 e.g. [[MoinAPI/Beispiele#xmlrpc.putPage.28.29|further examples]]
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