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What can you do with a Vim wiki?
Vimwiki is a personal wiki for Vim – interlinked, plain text files written in a markup language With Vimwiki you can organize notes and ideas and quickly create links between them
How to add tags to notes in vimwiki?
If you add tags to your Vimwiki notes, you can also use a VimwikiSearchTags command. In both cases, when you are searching in your notes, the results will populate your local list, where you can move using Vim commands lopen to open the list, lnext to go to the next occurence and lnext for the previous occurence.
Can a vimwiki link be constructed from more than one word?
A Vimwiki link can be constructed from more than one word. Just visually select the words to be linked and press Enter. Try it with Project Gutenberg . The result should look something like:
How to install vimwiki plugin in vimrc?
Use the Plugin-manager of your choice to install vimwiki. Make sure you have these settings in your vimrc file: Without them Vimwiki will not work properly. Add the following to the plugin-configuration in your vimrc: Then run :PlugInstall. Alternatively, download the latest version ( zip, tar) and extract it into ~/.vim/bundle/
How to disable the temporary wiki feature in vimwiki?
Vimwiki has a feature called “Temporary Wikis”, that will treat every file with configured file-extension as a wiki. To disable this feature add this to your vimrc: Alternative you can set vimwiki to use markdown syntax but a different file-extension, like the default .wiki .
What are the advantages and disadvantages of vimwiki?
One of the main Vim advantages is the fact that it’s a modal editor, which means that it has different edition modes. Each edition mode gives different functionalities to each key. This increases the number of shortcuts without having to include multiple keyboard combinations. In Vimwiki this allows to write notes with ease.
How to install vimwiki without Vim plugin?
Without them Vimwiki will not work properly. Add the following to the plugin-configuration in your vimrc: Then run :PlugInstall. Alternatively, download the latest version ( zip, tar) and extract it into ~/.vim/bundle/ Then launch Vim, run :Helptags and then :help vimwiki to verify it was installed.