VViki is a tiny AsciiDoc-flavored wiki plugin for Vim. It was inspired by VimWiki, uses Vim’s existing AsciiDoc syntax highlighting, and aims to be extremely lightweight.
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Hit Enter on a word to create a link
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Hit Enter on a link to edit that page (or open URL in a browser)
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Backspace opens previous page
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Tab jumps the cursor to the next link on the page
Add something like this to your ~/.vimrc file (or equivalent):
" VViki setup nnoremap <leader>ww :e ~/wiki/index.adoc<cr>
The above mapping will open a page called index when you type '<leader>ww'. (Vim’s default leader key is '\'. If you’ve not changed it, you’d type type '\ww'.) Users coming from VimWiki will be familiar with this mapping.
By default, VViki uses ~/wiki as the wiki "root" directory and looks for pages having an .adoc extension. Any file under this directory (or subdirectory) ending in .adoc will be detected as a wiki page.
Note: VViki does not currently create directories, so you’ll need to create ~/wiki if it does not already exist.
Here’s a setup example which changes the root directory and extension:
" VViki setup let g:vviki_root = "~/secret_diary" let g:vviki_ext = ".txt" nnoremap <leader>ww :e ~/wiki/index.txt<cr>
See :help vviki for complete documentation and specifically :help vviki-configuration for all settings.
I love VimWiki. I also love AsciiDoc, but VimWiki doesn’t support AsciiDoc syntax. I put a day or two into adding full AsciiDoc support to VimWiki, but eventually concluded, "it would be faster just to create my own plugin." And it was!
VViki aims to "do one thing and do it well". This table explains the difference:
| Feature | VimWiki | VViki |
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Wiki functionality |
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Syntax highlighting |
X |
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Tooling (search, HTML export, etc.) |
X |
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✓ Absolute vs relative internal links
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✓ Make VViki a "real" plugin
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✓ Fix bug with description in link macros - need proper line parsing
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✓ Try using 'conceal' for syntax to display pretty links
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✓ Configurable wiki path
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✓ Configurable wiki file extension
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✓ Add default "index" files for "directory/" wiki paths
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✓ Start help doc
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✓ Finish help doc
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✓ Global setting to turn off link syntax conceal
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✓ Add <tab> key link navigation (jump to next link)
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✓ Release 1.0
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❏ Wishlist: Consider creating directories as needed (limit to wiki root)
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❏ Wishlist: some sort of shortcut (with pattern matching) to add links to existing wiki pages
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❏ Wishlist: checklist shortcuts (check/uncheck [ ] boxes)
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Dave Gauer
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