On Mon, May 7, 2012 04:52, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 06/05/12 13:57, John Beckett wrote:
>>> I added a plugin called totd.vim which will show me a tip a
>>> day when launch vim, but I don't know where to download
>>> vimtips.txt. I went to Vim Tips Wiki but still can't find
>>> where to download it, any one knows. Many thanks!
>>
>> I guess that is a very old plugin (last updated July 2006):
>> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=88
>>
>> At that time, the tips were on vim.org, and there was a download
>> of a zip file with the body of each tip (no comments). Nothing
>> like that is available now.
>>
>> While a nice idea, the tips are not in a suitable state (too
>> much obsolete or misguided advice) to be used for a "tip of the
>> day". What could be done, is that someone might manually work
>> out which tips are in a reasonable condition, and make a file
>> with the tip contents. I would far prefer that work went into
>> cleaning up the tips!
> There is a tips.txt among the help files distributed with Vim (on my
> system, /usr/local/share/vim/vim73/doc/tips.txt for Vim 7.3, last
> changed 2009 Nov 07). These tips are separated by a line of equal signs
> and are meant to be displayed in a Vim help window.
Yes, but those are different tips and having nothing in common with the
tips, that are no managed at vim.wikia.com (well except the name) and
are only a handful.
regards,
Christian
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