On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 21:31 -0500, Oisin Feeley wrote:
I asked in our recent IRC meeting about workflows and was told that most people just edit the wiki directly. More power to you! I think I would go nuts trying to do that. I have been using the following chain of tools.
Writing my Beat:
- LyX -> 2. ASCII export -> 3. Vim -> 4. Firefox with "It's All Text"
extension to edit wiki.
I have a blank copy of the wiki text for my beat which I insert to get started. I use "It's All Text" to fire up gvim and begin editing.
I browse through the mailing list archives and copy interesting threads. I wish there were some header in the emails in my inbox which would let me derive their archive URL...
As things stand now I have a nice dictionary of users and their camel case names and Vim warns me with highlighting if there's a completely new name. This saves me time in searching/checking names. If there's no
In all my years I have never bothered to learn about macros in vi. Care to share how you do that? If I can keep a dictionary of name to username mappings and quickly/easily reference it with a macro, that may be a tolerable level of pain.
The references change means that using LyX is now no longer necessary. I can just cut out that step and use Vim. As far as I'm concerned that's great. The only possible thing is that I need to figure out a way to fold/hide the reference so that it's visually less intrusive inline and I can concentrate on the flow of the text.
I'm very happy with the references change. Wow. Why didn't we think of that earlier. :)