- Intro
- Screenshots
- Installation
- Basic Markup
- Key Bindings
- Commands
- Changing Wiki Syntax
- Getting Help
- Helping VimWiki
- Wiki
- License
VimWiki is a personal wiki for Vim -- a number of linked text files that have their own syntax highlighting. See the VimWiki Wiki for an example website built with VimWiki!
For the latest features and fixes checkout the dev branch. If you are interested in contributing see this section.
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
(default is \ww
) to go to your index
wiki file. By default, it is located in ~/vimwiki/index.wiki
. See :h vimwiki_list
for registering a different path/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.
VimWiki has been tested on Vim >= 7.3. It will likely work on older versions but will not be officially supported.
Make sure you have these settings in your vimrc file:
set nocompatible
filetype plugin on
syntax on
Without them, VimWiki will not work properly.
Installation using Vim packages (since Vim 7.4.1528)
git clone https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki.git ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vimwiki
# to generate documentation i.e. ':h vimwiki'
vim -c 'helptags ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start/vimwiki/doc' -c quit
Notes:
- See
:h helptags
for issues with installing the documentation. - For general information on vim packages see
:h packages
.
Installation using Pathogen
cd ~/.vim
mkdir bundle
cd bundle
git clone https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki.git
Installation using Vim-Plug
Add the following to the plugin-configuration in your vimrc:
Plug 'vimwiki/vimwiki'
Then run :PlugInstall
.
Installation using Vundle
Add Plugin 'vimwiki/vimwiki'
to your vimrc file and run:
vim +PluginInstall +qall
Download the zip archive
and extract it in ~/.vim/bundle/
Then launch Vim, run :Helptags
and then :help vimwiki
to verify it was
installed.
= Header1 =
== Header2 ==
=== Header3 ===
*bold* -- bold text
_italic_ -- italic text
[[wiki link]] -- wiki link
[[wiki link|description]] -- wiki link with description
* 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