Vim Plugin For FlexWiki

The FlexWiki plugin makes editing .wiki files much easier with Vim (Vi IMproved). The plugin provides syntax highlighting; the default textbox provided by FlexWiki has all the charm and power of Notepad. The plugin also sets a number of buffer-local options which make editing very long lines much more pleasant.

The plugin was written by GeorgeReilly.

Installation

The FlexWiki plugin is included with Vim 7.0. If you prefer to use it on Vim 6.x, then

• Obtain the FlexWiki plugin for Vim
• Install Vim
• Set the HOME environment variable to point to somewhere sensible.
• Create a new folder, HOME\vimfiles
• Unzip flexwiki.zip in that folder.
• Restart Vim.

Using the plugin

• Either, edit a FlexWiki page directly, if you have access to the wiki's filestore, using :e ThatPage.wiki
• Or, :new SomePage.wiki to create a new FlexWiki buffer, then copy-and-paste the text from the browser's edit window. When finished, paste the text back into the browser.

But I hate Vi!

If you don't like the modal behavior of Vim, fear not. Vim can be used as a non-modal editor using the Evim script. Evim leaves you in insert mode all the time. Or you could try Cream a much-enhanced implementation of Evim.

See Also

• FlexWikiPad offers similar functionality
• FlexWikiEmacsMode if you prefer editing with Emacs
• FormattingRules for the syntax
• FlexWikiTools for other non-browser tools

Todo

The Vim plugin is not complete. Some things yet to be done:

• Test with Cream
• Omni-Completion for suggesting links to other pages
• Ctrl-] tagging for links