User:JohnBeckett

From Vim Tips Wiki

I'm John Beckett – a user of many strange editors over the years.
I'm still finding my way in Vim and expect that it will see me out.

I lurk in the vim and vim-dev mailing lists, and occasionally contribute.

Feel free to contact me by editing the discussion page. I am a sysop of the Vim Tips wiki, and you are welcome to ask any questions about this wiki, or to discuss proposals.

Let's pool our ignorance.

[edit] Projects

I have written a bot to manipulate pages. It runs manually under the JohnBot account.

Here is my todo list (which will wait until completion of the following projects).

The help template and script overview has information on the template used to create links to the Vim online documentation.

The titles project overview describes how 578 tips were renamed – see the discussion in the vim-l mailing list archive.

The tip templates project describes what was a proposal for changing the template used to introduce a tip. The proposal was discussed in this thread at vim-l, and has now been implemented. A script has migrated the template, and I have manually edited all the imported tips (1 to 1504 – about 1220 actual tips).

The proposed Main Page contains a proposal I am developing to replace the existing Main Page. The aim is to put more tip info on the MP, while simplifying it in an attempt to make it more immediately useful to readers of tips.