Changes for page XWikiTips

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From version 4.1
edited by David De La Harpe Golden
on 2018/07/28 19:07
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To version 6.1
edited by David De La Harpe Golden
on 2019/11/11 22:33
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1 1  [[XWiki>>https://www.xwiki.org]] is a powerful Java-based programmable wiki system, more of a hybrid wiki/cms. To be honest, in an ideal world I'd rather have continued to custom-implement my site in Lisp, but I had to balance that against time available, and after evaluating several options I ended up going with XWiki for now.
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3 -Installation is straightforward on Debian, just following the relevant XWiki docs. The most involved part was setting up "short URLs" - losing the odd javatastic ##/xwiki/bin/view## url prefix - but again, no real issues there.
3 +Installation is straightforward on Debian, just following the relevant XWiki docs. The most involved part was setting up "short URLs" - losing the odd javatastic ##/xwiki/bin/view## url prefix - but again, no real issues there. 
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6 6  == Syntax Highlighting ==
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8 8  XWiki apparently uses Pygments (via Jython) for syntax-highlighting in the ##~{~{code}}## macro, so the available languages are those supported by Pygments: http://pygments.org/docs/lexers/
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10 +== Breadcrumb tree menu ==
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12 +Is handled in hierarchy_macros.vm, if you want to change it to display more than 10 entries in the dropdown. https://forum.xwiki.org/t/increase-number-of-entries-in-breadcrumb/903/4
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14 +== Java Compatibility ==
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16 +At time of writing (2019), XWiki LTS [[is not yet compatible>>https://forum.xwiki.org/t/error-number-4001-in-4-error-while-evaluating-velocity-template-colorthemeinit-vm/4323/5]] with Java 11 / post- Java 8. It's straightforward to use Java 8 for now while Java 8 itself is still supported of course, just worth keeping an eye on.