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 > > distribution. > > > > The Vim community suffers from a second problem: > > There are many plugins - some are outdated - and its sometimes hard to > > find the "jewels" - because they may be hosted on github only. > > There is a wiki, but its not integrated in the main site - neither is it > > easy for external people to hack on it just using what they know best: > > "Vim" (right?) > > > > For this reason I'd like to start a wiki like text file based git > > repository which summarizes the most useful tools (and maybe > > alternatives) so that people who want to find answers about: > > "How to I most efficiently code xy" or do "z". > > > > Of course vim help files come to mind, they already support links and > > code blocks - and there are existing tools to turn them into HTML > > (so that the contents can be pushed to www.vim.org one day) - still > > markup is little bit limited. > > > > Are there alternatives you'd choose for such an effort which can be > > translated to HTML easily and which can be edited and read by Vim, too? > > > > Also would you be interested in joining and helping maintain such a > > git based wiki? > > > > Its not about writing comprehensive documentation, rather about creating > > an index about which tools are known to solve a problem. This can be > > completion, configuration, running a compiler and more. > > > > Feedback about this idea and ideas are welcome. > > 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. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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 because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
