Re: vim: how to produce the html pages like the vim help html?

On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 10:11:56 PM UTC-5, ZyX wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2013 1:00 AM, "Charles Campbell" <Charles.E...@nasa.gov> wrote:
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> > ping song wrote:
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> >> any help?
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> >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:03 AM, ping <songpi...@gmail.com <mailto:songpi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >>     this looks real nice!
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> >>     http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/
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> >>     the thing that I like it , is that it looks exactly what it is in
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> >>     vim , compacted pure text but still URL-able, like those code
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> >>     cross reference pages generated by LXR
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> >>     (http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v3.10.2/kernel/cpu/idle.c),  sth I
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> >>     can't simply archieve in vimwiki.
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> >>     what options of tools do we have (in vim or external) to generate
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> >>     those beautiful pages?
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> > I have no idea what was used for the online vim man pages.  You do know about TOhtml, though?
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> At least one of the maintainers uses self-written python script; he wrote about this in the announce. Maybe there a link to the script in the announce, I do not remember.
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I think there is also a perl script distributed with Vim, in the runtime directory, called vim2html.pl. I'm not at all sure what it does.

> TOhtml does not have support for links yet, though AFAIR it was promised. There is a plugin that adds them though.
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I don't know about "promised" but it would be a nice feature.

How should it work? I haven't put any effort into such a thing because I'm not sure how it ought to work.

I could just find any occurrence of each tag as found by the ctags interface and wrap it in a link, but to which file? TOhtml only gives you an unsaved buffer with a default file name, which the user could save anywhere with any name at all. I could just use href='./other_file.ext.html' but then the user must be sure all linked files are accessible from the same directory.

How does formatvim handle this? Maybe consistency is the name of the game here. Or does anyone have thoughts on how they would LIKE it to work?

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