From 2d2a43f200b88627253f2906fbae87cef7c1e8ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Franck Cuny Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 11:12:37 -0700 Subject: Mass convert all posts from markdown to org. --- ...008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.org | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.org (limited to 'posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.org') 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 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f97fc4e --- /dev/null +++ b/posts/2008-06-14-how-to-use-vim-as-a-personal-wiki.org @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +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 :e index.mkd + map ,T :e todo.mkd + map ,S :e someday.mkd + map ,c :s/^ /c/ + map ,w :s/^ /w/ + map ,x :s/^ /x/ + map gf :e .mkd " open page + map :bp + imap \date =strftime("%Y-%m-%d") + set tabstop=2 " Number of spaces 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. -- cgit v1.2.3