Monday, February 20, 2012

www.vim.org contents - what about adding a git based wiki everybody can edit?

I feel that www.vim.org contents are outdated - and I'd like www.vim.org
answering common questions such as:
- how to use Vim for python development
- how to configure Vim for coding C/C++
- how to does a common .vimrc look like ?
maybe even add a .vimrc configurator and everybody can provide
snippets?
Example how it could look like: http://mootools.net/core/
However there are much more item - thus a JS based filter by
keywords would be nice.
- ...

On #vim pages like http://sontek.net/turning-vim-into-a-modern-python-ide#id21
are references (which is a good thing) - BUT:

- it still references old msanders snipmate repo

- it does not talk about pyton repl with completion implementations
which are available for Vim (such as vim-addon-async)

That's why I think that we should add kind of "wiki" to www.vim.org.
Modifying it should be dead simple (like adding snippets to
snipmate-snippets). That's why I consider providing any git based
wiki system people can either edit online or by cloning the git repo
into any dir and modifying the source files directly.
This also means that you can browse / read everything offline.

The format used in text files should be dead simple such as vim help
file syntax or markdown like syntax. (I also know that there are many
wiki like plugins for Vim).

Even if its not 'official' at the beginning - such a page could be
created and added integrated into www.vim.org later at some stage.

How do you feel about such a change? Would you appreciate it?

Marc Weber

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