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| author | Franck Cuny <franckcuny@gmail.com> | 2016-07-02 20:06:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Franck Cuny <franckcuny@gmail.com> | 2016-07-02 20:06:31 -0700 |
| commit | 4b8e43f75b394a4e6169884fbfb4c606865c6a22 (patch) | |
| tree | 48cae6b8e8f9b68cae29676d8a15cb3ddbfcccda /content/post/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.md | |
| parent | Stop using Jekyll. (diff) | |
| download | lumberjaph-4b8e43f75b394a4e6169884fbfb4c606865c6a22.tar.gz | |
Import migration from Jekyll to Hugo.
All the posts were converted, and the layout is created. This looks like
it works just fine.
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diff --git a/content/post/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.md b/content/post/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b847e1c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +date: 2008-06-14T00:00:00Z +summary: In which I describe how I use vim as a personal wiki. +title: On how to use vim as a personal wiki +--- + +There is different reasons to want a personal wiki on your machine: + +* privacy +* having it everywhere + +I've tested a few wikis engines, like [tiddlywiki](http://tiddlywiki.com/), but I've found nothing that was really what I wanted. The main inconveniance is the need to use a webbrowser. A browser is not a text processor, so it's really painfull to use them for writing. + +I've started to try to use vim as wiki. Why would I want to use something like vim for this ? well, it's plain text (easy to grep, or to write script for manipulating data), application independent, it's a real text processor, you can customize it, and most importantly, I know how to use it, ... + +I've got a **wiki** directory in my home directory, with all my files in it. I use git to track versions of it (you can use svn if you prefer, there is no difference for this usage). In my .vimrc, i've added this instruction: `set exrc`. + +In my wiki directory, i've got another .vimrc with some specific mapping: + +```vim +map ,I <esc>:e index.mkd <cr> +map ,T <esc>:e todo.mkd <cr> +map ,S <esc>:e someday.mkd <cr> +map ,c <esc>:s/^ /c/<cr> +map ,w <esc>:s/^ /w/<cr> +map ,x <esc>:s/^ /x/<cr> +map gf :e <cfile>.mkd<cr> " open page +map <backspace> :bp<cr> +imap \date <c-R>=strftime("%Y-%m-%d")<cr> +set tabstop=2 " Number of spaces <tab> counts for. +set shiftwidth=2 " Unify +set softtabstop=2 " Unify +``` + +I organize my files in directory. I've got a **work**, **lists**, **recipes**, **misc**, ... and I put my files in this directory. + +I've got an index page, with links to main section. I don't have wikiword in camelcase or things like that, so if i want to put a link to a page, I just wrote the link this way **dir_name/page_name**, then, i juste have to hit `gf` on this link to open the page. I also use this place as a todo list manager. I've got one paragrah per day, like this : + + 2008-06-14 + - [@context] task 1 + - [@context] task 2 + ... + +and a bunch of vim mapping for marking complete (`,c`), work in progress (`,w`) or canceled (`,x`). + +If i don't have a deadline for a particular task, I use a 'someday' file, where the task is put with a context. + +The good things with markdown, is that the syntax is easy to use, and it's easy to convert to HTML. |