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author | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
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committer | Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> | 2010-08-27 10:01:58 +0200 |
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tree | 1ba1a0c94e375ab8ed609eaa57a542c6b87de5a8 /doc/forum/navigation_of_wiki_pages_on_local_filesystem_with_vim.mdwn | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/navigation_of_wiki_pages_on_local_filesystem_with_vim.mdwn b/doc/forum/navigation_of_wiki_pages_on_local_filesystem_with_vim.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7bfcf3088 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/navigation_of_wiki_pages_on_local_filesystem_with_vim.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +**UPDATE** I have created a [[page|tips/follow_wikilinks_from_inside_vim]] in +the tips section about the plugin, how to get it, install it and use it. Check +that out. --[[jerojasro]] + +I wrote a vim function to help me navigate the wiki when I'm editing it. It extends the 'gf' (goto file) functionality. Once installed, you place the cursor on a wiki page name and press 'gf' (without the quotes); if the file exists, it gets loaded. + +This function takes into account the ikiwiki linking rules when deciding which file to go to. + +> 'gf' gets in the way when there are directories with the same name of a wiki page. The +> function below doesn't implement the linking rules properly (test the link (ignoring case), +> if there is no match ascend the dir. hierarchy and start over, until we reach the root of +> the wiki). I'm rewriting it to follow these rules properly +> +> I think the page for [[LinkingRules|ikiwiki/subpage/linkingrules]] should say that ikiwiki **ascends** +> the dir. hierarchy when looking for a wikilink, not that it **descends** it. Am I correct? --[[jerojasro]] + +>> Conventionally, the root directory is considered to be lower than other +>> directories, so I think the current wording is correct. --[[Joey]] + +let me know what you think + +> " NOTE: the root of the wiki is considered the first directory that contains a +> " .ikiwiki folder, except $HOME/.ikiwiki (the usual ikiwiki libdir) +> +> That's not going to work in all situations; for example, with an ikiwiki which uses git as the backend, the normal setup is that one has +> +> * a bare git repository +> * a git repository which ikiwiki builds the wiki from (which has a .ikiwiki directory in it) +> * an *additional* git repository cloned from the bare repository, which is used for making changes from the command-line rather than the web. It is this repository in which one would be editing files with vim, and *this* repository does not have a .ikiwiki directory in it. It does have a .git directory in the root, however, so I suppose you could use that as a method of detection of a root directory, but of course that would only work for git repositories. +> +> -- [[KathrynAndersen]] +> +>> You are completely right; all of my wikis are compiled both locally and +>> remotely, and so the local repo also has a `.ikiwiki` folder. And that's not the +>> "usual" setup. +>> +>> checking for a `.git` dir would not work when the wiki's source files aren't +>> located at the root of the repo. +>> +>> So, besides of doing a `touch .ikiwiki` at the root of the wiki in your local +>> repo, do you see any alternative? +>> +>> -- [[jerojasro]] + +well. I've rewritten the whole thing, to take into account: + + * file matching ignoring case (MyPage matches mypage.mdwn) + * checking all the way down (up) to the root of the wiki (if there is a link `\[[foo]]` on `a/b/page`), + try `a/b/page/foo`, then `a/b/foo`, and so on, up to `foo` + * the alternate name for a page: when looking for the file for `\[[foo]]`, try both `foo.mdwn` and `foo/index.mdwn` + +you can find the file [here](http://git.devnull.li/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=vim-jerojasro.git;a=blob;f=.vim/ftplugin/ikiwiki_nav.vim;hb=HEAD). To use it, place it in `$HOME/.vim/ftplugin`. After that, hitting `<CR>` (Enter) in normal mode over a wikilink will take you to that page, if it exists. + +the plugin has, as of now, two problems: + + * doesn't work with wikilinks that take more than one line (though this isn't really that bad) + * it assumes that the root of the wiki is the first directory down the filesystem hierarchy that + has a `.ikiwiki` folder on it. If your copy of the wiki doesn't have it, you must create it for + the plugin to work + +-- [[jerojasro]] + +> Interesting. I was at one point looking at "potwiki.vim", which implements a local wiki and follows CamelCase links, creating new files where necessary etc., to see if it could be adapted for ikiwiki (See [[tips/vim syntax highlighting/discussion]]). I didn't get anywhere. -- [[Jon]] + +>> when I wrote the plugin I also considered the possibility of creating files (and their dirs, if necessary) +>> from new wikilinks; the changes needed to get that working are fairly small -- [[jerojasro]] + +> Seems about ready for me to think about pulling it into ikiwiki +> alongside [[tips/vim_syntax_highlighting/ikiwiki.vim]]. If you'll +> please slap a license on it. :) --[[Joey]] +> +>> GPL version 2 or later (if that doesn't cause any problems here). I'll add it +>> to the file --[[jerojasro]] +>> +>>> I see you've put the plugin on vim.org. Do you think it makes sense to +>>> also include a copy in ikiwiki? --[[Joey]] +>>> +>>>> mmm, no. There would be two copies of it, and the git repo. I'd rather have +>>>> a unique place for the "official" version (vim.org), and another for the dev +>>>> version (its git repo). +>>>> +>>>> actually, I would also suggest to upload the [[`ikiwiki.vim`|tips/vim_syntax_highlighting]] file to vim.org --[[jerojasro]] +>>>>> +>>>>> If you have any interest in maintaining the syntax highlighting +>>>>> plugin and putting it there, I'd be fine with that. I think it needs +>>>>> some slight work to catch up with changes to ikiwiki's directives +>>>>> (!-prefixed now), and wikilinks (able to have spaces now). --[[Joey]] + +<a id='syn-maintenance'> + +>>>>> +>>>>>> I don't really know too much about syntax definitions in vim. But I'll give it a stab. I know it fails when there are 2 \[[my text|link]] wikilinks in the same page. +>>>>>> I'm not promising anything, though ;) --[[jerojasro]] +> +> Also, I have a possible other approach for finding ikiwiki's root. One +> could consider that any subdirectory of an ikiwiki wiki is itself +> a standalone wiki, though probably one missing a toplevel index page. +> The relative wikilinks work such that this assumption makes sense; +> you can build any subdirectory with ikiwiki and probably get something +> reasonable with links that work, etc. +> +> So, if that's the case, then one could say that the directory that the +> user considers to be the toplevel of their wiki is really also a subwiki, +> enclosed in a succession of parents that go all the way down to the root +> directory (or alternatively, to the user's home directory). I think that +> logically makes some sense. +> +> And if that's the case, you can resolve an absolute link by looking for +> the page closest to the root that matches the link. +> +>> I like your idea; it doesn't alter the matching of the relative links, and +>> should work fine with absolute links too. I'll implement it, though I see +>> some potential (but small) issues with it --[[jerojasro]] +> +> It may even make sense to change ikiwiki's own handling of "absolute" +> links to work that way. But even without changing ikiwiki, I think it +> would be a reasonable thing for vim to do. It would only fail in two +> unusual circumstances: +> +> 1. There is a file further down, outside what the user considers +> the wiki, that matches. Say a `$HOME/index.mdwn` +> 2. An absolute link is broken in that the page linked to does +> not exist in the root of the wiki. But it does exist in a subdir, +> and vim would go to that file. +> +> --[[Joey]] +> +>> your approach will add more noise when the plugin grows the page-creation +>> feature, since there will be no real root to limit the possible locations for +>> the new page. But it is far better than demanding for a `.ikiwiki` dir --[[jerojasro]] |