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diff --git a/posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.org b/posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.org deleted file mode 100644 index f97fc4e..0000000 --- a/posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -There is different reasons to want a personal wiki on your machine: - -- privacy -- having it everywhere - -I've tested a few wikis engines, like -[[http://tiddlywiki.com/][tiddlywiki]], 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: - -#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE - 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 -#+END_EXAMPLE - -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 : - -#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE - 2008-06-14 - - [@context] task 1 - - [@context] task 2 - ... -#+END_EXAMPLE - -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. |