On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 21:31 -0500, Oisin Feeley wrote: > I asked in our recent IRC meeting about workflows and was told that most > people just edit the wiki directly. More power to you! I think I would > go nuts trying to do that. I have been using the following chain of > tools. > > Writing my Beat: > 1. LyX -> 2. ASCII export -> 3. Vim -> 4. Firefox with "It's All Text" > extension to edit wiki. I have a blank copy of the wiki text for my beat which I insert to get started. I use "It's All Text" to fire up gvim and begin editing. I browse through the mailing list archives and copy interesting threads. I wish there were some header in the emails in my inbox which would let me derive their archive URL... > As things stand now I have a nice dictionary of users and their camel > case names and Vim warns me with highlighting if there's a completely > new name. This saves me time in searching/checking names. If there's no In all my years I have never bothered to learn about macros in vi. Care to share how you do that? If I can keep a dictionary of name to username mappings and quickly/easily reference it with a macro, that may be a tolerable level of pain. > The references change means that using LyX is now no longer necessary. I > can just cut out that step and use Vim. As far as I'm concerned that's > great. The only possible thing is that I need to figure out a way to > fold/hide the reference so that it's visually less intrusive inline and > I can concentrate on the flow of the text. I'm very happy with the references change. Wow. Why didn't we think of that earlier. :) -- Dale Bewley - Unix Administrator - Shields Library - UC Davis GPG: 0xB098A0F3 0D5A 9AEB 43F4 F84C 7EFD 1753 064D 2583 B098 A0F3 _______________________________________________ Fedora-news-list mailing list Fedora-news-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-news-list
