Hi John, On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:27 AM, John Beckett <[email protected]> wrote: > Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: >> Last year I thought about moving the FAQ pages to the Vim Wiki >> site. But that didn't happen. As the FAQ is a big document, we >> need to split it into multiple wiki pages (one per section?). > > Sorry that I abandoned that project (well, technically, it is > still on my TODO list so it is not actually abandoned). > > Major problems of putting the FAQ on the wiki include: > - The size, and working out how to split it up (doable). > - The formatting (very hard to convert to wikitext). > - The duplication with some tips (awkward maintenance). >
Agreed. Someone also needs to modify the existing FAQ file to use the wiki syntax. > > In the end, I could not think of any improvement on the current > situation of having a single text file that a keen person can > download (as pure text) and view/search within Vim. > > If you wanted somewhere to host the download, perhaps the > "Files" section shown at the following could be used: > http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use > This sounds good. I can upload the text version to this location. > > And/or, the "Pages" section could hold the html version. > Can this conversion be done automatically? Previously this conversion used to be performed by a script running on the SourceForge server. - Yegappan > > Due to spam problems, we had to restrict file changes to > managers only, but there is sure to be a way to accommodate that > if you wanted. > > John > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
