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Does anyone know offhand of a way to batch-convert old MoinMoin pages (circa version 1.5) into the new markup?

Until tonight I didn't even know they HAD new markup. This afternoon I downloaded the latest version and was quite surprised. Firstly, the Windows offline version is no longer a stand-alone exe (BOO, means I've got to learn to run Portable Python to continue using my wiki on my portable drive).

Secondly, they've changed the markup syntax, especially the links, so that it's much closer to the markup used by MediaWiki (what Wikipedia runs) – and hence also the markup used by MediaWiki's older brother, UseMod, which is what I run on my site. Good move. Apart from its being (in my opinion) a more logical markup scheme to begin with, I will now be able to copy and paste from one of my wikis to the other. Which is great! I never particularly liked Moin's silly let's-be-different-for-???-and-profit markup anyway.

The only problem is that all my offline pages use Moin's silly let's-be-different-for-???-and-profit markup…

Hence my original question. My Googlefu hasn't turned up anything yet and MoinMoin's support wiki has, well, never been the greatest.

If I find no lazybones way to do this midtimes, I'll see if Notepad++ has a global find and replace that uses regexp. If not, HomeSite definitely does, so a lunch break next week will be usefully spent. I have edited a lot of pages the long way in the past, when I didn't have nearly as much stuff in my wiki, and don't fancy editing EVERY page link in there now. Nope.