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Ask HN: Should I make a clean VIM reference site?
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9 points
by briancray
5534 days ago
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Problem: Vim tips and files are scattered all over the web. Usually in sites that are brutally difficult to use. Yet there are TONS of people using VIM. Solution: A contrastingly clean central source of all things VIM that's user-maintained through GitHub. Questions:
1. Would this interest you?
2. What would be the top-level nav links? (A little virtual card sorting here)
3. What would you expect on it? |
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I think you should consider discussing this on the vim mailing list (maybe you have, maybe others have).
It's a glaring deficiency of the vim ecosystem, I agree. Every single time I use vim.org and the vim wiki, I hear David Cross in my head saying "THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY". The fact that David Cross is in my head then concerns me for several minutes and I forget about Vim.
I'd love a way to update a wiki via a dvcs. Then it becomes a help file as well. Here's a project I would be more interested in:
Design a next gen Vim help file / wiki system that would allow for local help file access to extend naturally into user contributed wiki content. Integrate scripts into the above. Allow all of it to live in any of several popular DVCS's. Ensure that the scripts that live in it can be independently sourced using Pathogen, etc.