I wrote a hackish ruby script that converts the xml dump to a
tagged help file.
The script can be downloaded from here if somebody is interested. The
output isn't perfect but it's okay for me.
http://github.com/tomtom/vimtlib/blob/83976d6b1572000b9950241749371206f7e03d59/ruby/vimtips2help.rb
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 2:34 am, Tom wrote:
I wrote a hackish ruby script that converts the xml dump to a
tagged help file.
The script can be downloaded from here if somebody is interested. The
output isn't perfect but it's okay for me.
Saluton John :)
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:24:12 +1100, John Beckett dixit:
To summarise discussions (most recent being [1]):
* It is unfair to credit some authors when the original tip was
simplistic or defective, and it's been fixed by wiki editors
(sometimes by merging in the imported
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:14:59PM -0800, Tom Link wrote:
Each tip on the wiki has a header. We've pruned some of the information
that was originally imported from vim.org, and now we're wondering
whether to also remove the author field.
IMHO collaborative tools like a wiki and
John Beckett wrote:
Each tip on the wiki has a header. We've pruned some of the information
that was originally imported from vim.org, and now we're wondering
whether to also remove the author field.
The wiki way of dealing with authorship is to use History, which
records the edit summary,
* The tip authors made their tips with the understanding that they'd
have prominent credit.
When the vimtips were still hosted on vim.sf.net, they were also made
available as plain text file[1] without any mention of the author. So
there was no real agreement at any time that the tip authors
Each tip on the wiki has a header. We've pruned some of the information
that was originally imported from vim.org, and now we're wondering
whether to also remove the author field.
The wiki way of dealing with authorship is to use History, which
records the edit summary, user name, and changes
