Re: Vim wiki editable by git

On Sunday, February 24, 2013 5:34:48 PM UTC-6, MarcWeber wrote:
> As you all know I wrote VAM to solve a problem: Vim plugins
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> distribution.
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> The Vim community suffers from a second problem:
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> There are many plugins - some are outdated - and its sometimes hard to
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> find the "jewels" - because they may be hosted on github only.
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> There is a wiki, but its not integrated in the main site - neither is it
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> easy for external people to hack on it just using what they know best:
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> "Vim" (right?)
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> For this reason I'd like to start a wiki like text file based git
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> repository which summarizes the most useful tools (and maybe
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> alternatives) so that people who want to find answers about:
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> "How to I most efficiently code xy" or do "z".
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> Of course vim help files come to mind, they already support links and
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> code blocks - and there are existing tools to turn them into HTML
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> (so that the contents can be pushed to www.vim.org one day) - still
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> markup is little bit limited.
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> Are there alternatives you'd choose for such an effort which can be
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> translated to HTML easily and which can be edited and read by Vim, too?
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> Also would you be interested in joining and helping maintain such a
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> git based wiki?
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> Its not about writing comprehensive documentation, rather about creating
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> an index about which tools are known to solve a problem. This can be
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> completion, configuration, running a compiler and more.
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> Feedback about this idea and ideas are welcome.
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> Marc Weber

I'd never use such a document, unless I stumbled across it in a web search.

I will probably continue to get plugins (when I need them) from searching the web, seeing recommendations on this list, and seeing mentions on #vim on Freenode.

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