VimWiki: A Personal Wiki For Vim
- Intro
- Installation
- Basic Markup
- Key Bindings
- Commands
- Changing Wiki Syntax
- Getting Help
- Helping VimWiki
- Wiki
- License
Intro
VimWiki is a personal wiki for Vim -- a number of linked text files that have their own syntax highlighting.
With VimWiki you can:
- Organize notes and ideas
- Manage to-do lists
- Write documentation
- Maintain a diary
- Export everything to HTML
To do a quick start press <Leader>ww
(this is usually \ww
) to go to your
index wiki file. By default it is located in ~/vimwiki/index.wiki
.
Feed it with the following example:
= My knowledge base =
* Tasks -- things to be done _yesterday_!!!
* Project Gutenberg -- good books are power.
* Scratchpad -- various temporary stuff.
Place your cursor on Tasks
and press Enter to create a link. Once pressed,
Tasks
will become [[Tasks]]
-- a VimWiki link. Press Enter again to
open it. Edit the file, save it, and then press Backspace to jump back to your
index.
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:
= My knowledge base =
* [[Tasks]] -- things to be done _yesterday_!!!
* [[Project Gutenberg]] -- good books are power.
* Scratchpad -- various temporary stuff.
Screenshots
Installation
Prerequisites
Make sure you have these settings in your vimrc file:
set nocompatible
filetype plugin on
syntax on
Without them VimWiki will not work properly.
Vim packages (since Vim 7.4.1528)
Installation usinggit clone https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki.git ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vimwiki
Pathogen
Installation usingcd ~/.vim
mkdir bundle
cd bundle
git clone https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki.git
Vim-Plug
Installation usingAdd the following to the plugin-configuration in your vimrc:
Plug 'vimwiki/vimwiki'
Then run :PlugInstall
.
Vundle
Installation usingAdd Plugin 'vimwiki/vimwiki'
to your vimrc file and run
vim +PluginInstall +qall
Or download the zip
archive and extract it
in ~/.vim/bundle/
Then launch Vim, run :Helptags
and then :help vimwiki
to verify it was
installed.
Basic Markup
= Header1 =
== Header2 ==
=== Header3 ===
*bold* -- bold text
_italic_ -- italic text
[[wiki link]] -- wiki link
[[wiki link|description]] -- wiki link with description
Lists:
* bullet list item 1
- bullet list item 2
- bullet list item 3
* bullet list item 4
* bullet list item 5
* bullet list item 6
* bullet list item 7
- bullet list item 8
- bullet list item 9
1. numbered list item 1
2. numbered list item 2
a) numbered list item 3
b) numbered list item 4
For other syntax elements, see :h vimwiki-syntax
Key bindings
Normal mode:
<Leader>ww
-- Open default wiki index file.<Leader>wt
-- Open default wiki index file in a new tab.<Leader>ws
-- Select and open wiki index file.<Leader>wd
-- Delete wiki file you are in.<Leader>wr
-- Rename wiki file you are in.<Enter>
-- Follow/Create wiki link<Shift-Enter>
-- Split and follow/create wiki link<Ctrl-Enter>
-- Vertical split and follow/create wiki link<Backspace>
-- Go back to parent(previous) wiki link<Tab>
-- Find next wiki link<Shift-Tab>
-- Find previous wiki link
For more keys, see :h vimwiki-mappings
Commands
:Vimwiki2HTML
-- Convert current wiki link to HTML:VimwikiAll2HTML
-- Convert all your wiki links to HTML:help vimwiki-commands
-- list all commands:help vimwiki
-- General vimwiki help docs
Changing Wiki Syntax
VimWiki currently ships with 3 syntaxes: VimWiki (default), Markdown (markdown), and MediaWiki (media)
If you would prefer to use either Markdown or MediaWiki syntaxes, set the following option in your .vimrc:
let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/vimwiki/',
\ 'syntax': 'markdown', 'ext': '.md'}]
Getting help
Have a question?
Visit the IRC channel #vimwiki
on Freenode (webchat, also synced to Matrix/Riot: #vimwiki:matrix.org
) or post to the mailing list.
Helping VimWiki
VimWiki has a lot of users but only very few recurring developers or people helping the community. Your help is therefore appreciated. Everyone can help! See #625 for information on how you can help.
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Maxim Kim 2013-2017 Daniel Schemala
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.