DokuVimKi is a Vim plugin which allows you to edit DokuWiki pages via DokuWikis XML-RPC interface. It also does syntax highlighting for DokuWiki syntax.
The recommended way to install DokuVimKi is via a Vim plugin manager like
vim-plug
or
pathogen.vim
.
For vim-plug
, add the following to the vim-plug section of your ~/.vimrc
,
which enables the DokuVimKi plugin only when first connecting to a DokuWiki:
Plug 'kynan/dokuvimki', {'on': 'DokuVimKi'}
For pathogen.vim
, simply run the following:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/kynan/dokuvimki
Alternatively, download the plugin and unpack it in your ~/.vim/
folder.
Note that if you have any other manually installed plugins, you need to merge
the DokuVimKi documentation tags into your existing doc/tags
file in your
~/.vim
directory, e.g. by running
cat dokuvimki/doc/tags >> .vim/doc/tags
vim needs to be compiled with python
support, which should be
the case for most distributions e.g. vim-gnome
or vim-gtk
on Debian/Ubuntu.
The dokuwikixmlrpc
python module
needs to be installed. Install it with:
pip install dokuwikixmlrpc
Note that vim will use the Python interpreter it was built with (if you haven't
built vim yourself this will be your system Python) and you will need to install
it for that interpreter. If you'd like to use a virtualenv you need a vim plugin
like virtualenv.vim
.
You'll also have to install a recent development version of DokuWiki itself in order to use this plugin! For details on how to setup XMLRPC for DokuWiki please refer to config:xmlrpc.
If you want to enable syntax highlighting without issuing :set syntax=dokuwiki
when editing pages of a local wiki just put this in your
~/.vimrc
to make VIM auto-detect DokuWiki files (this is not required for
editing remote wikis via DWedit
):
" looks for DokuWiki headlines in the first 20 lines
" of the current buffer
fun IsDokuWiki()
if match(getline(1,20),'^ \=\(=\{2,6}\).\+\1 *$') >= 0
set textwidth=0
set wrap
set linebreak
set filetype=dokuwiki
endif
endfun
" check for dokuwiki syntax
autocmd BufWinEnter *.txt call IsDokuWiki()
syntax on
To configure the plugin just add the following to your ~/.vimrc
and change
the values to your needs.
" user name with which you want to login at the remote wiki
let g:DokuVimKi_USER = 'username'
" password
let g:DokuVimKi_PASS = 'password'
" url of the remote wiki (without trailing '/')
let g:DokuVimKi_URL = 'https://yourwikidomain.org'
" use HTTP basic auth (optional, defaults to off)
" setting this to any value other than empty string enables the setting
let g:DokuVimKi_HTTP_BASIC_AUTH = 1
" width of the index window (optional, defaults to 30)
let g:DokuVimKi_INDEX_WINWIDTH = 40
" set a default summary for :w (optional, defaults to [xmlrpc dokuvimki edit])
let g:DokuVimKi_DEFAULT_SUM = 'fancy default summary'
Once you are set and done you can launch DokuVimKi:
:DokuVimKi
The DokuVimKi syntax highligher uses the following highlight groups, which can be customized:
To override a highlight group, add the following to your vimrc
:
hi <group name> <key>=<val> [<key>=<val> ...]
See :help highlight
for further details.
For a detailed list of available commands please consult the dokuvimki help:
:help dokuvimki-commands
To speed up the editing you could add some aliases to your $SHELLrc
:
alias vidoku='viDokuVimKi() { vim +DokuVimKi +"DWedit $1" }; viDokuVimKi'
alias gvidoku='gviDokuVimKi() { gvim +DokuVimKi +"DWedit $1" }; gviDokuVimKi'
Usage example:
vidoku playground:DokuVimKi
This will create a DokuVimKi document within the playground namespace.
A good idea is to outsource your DokuVimKi configuration. To do so, store your
settings in a seperate file like ~/.vim/dokuvimkirc
. You can increase
security be setting the file permission properly
chmod 600 ~/.vim/dokuvimkirc
To include this file in your ~/.vimrc
use following code:
" Include DokuVimKi Configuration
if filereadable($HOME."/.vim/dokuvimkirc")
source $HOME/.vim/dokuvimkirc
endif
One way of keeping your .vimrc
lean and mean is to avoid loading dokuvimki
specific configuration file unless you want to edit the wiki, while retaining
all your other .vimrc
magic. To do this simply create a separate
configuration directory called ~/.dokuwiki
which should contain
mywiki.vim
:
source ~/.dokuwiki/macros_dokuvimki.vim
let g:DokuVimKi_USER = 'mywikiuser'
let g:DokuVimKi_PASS = 'mywikipassword'
let g:DokuVimKi_URL = 'http://mywiki.org'
source ~/.dokuwiki/dokuvimki.vim
The last bit displays the list of wiki pages by default. Then you are free to
define a custom macros_dokuvimki.vim
that applies to all your dokuwiki vim
bindings:
" ensures you retain your normal .vimrc magic
source ~/.vimrc
" remap save commands for convenience
nmap <S-z><S-z> :DWsave<CR>
" looks for DokuWiki headlines in the first 20 lines
" of the current buffer
fun IsDokuWiki()
if match(getline(1,20),'^ \=\(=\{2,6}\).\+\1 *$') >= 0
set textwidth=0
set wrap
set linebreak
set filetype=dokuwiki
endif
endfun
" check for dokuwiki syntax
autocmd BufWinEnter *.txt call IsDokuWiki()
"Authentication has been moved to "~/.dokuwiki/mywiki.vim" specific files
" optional Cursorline, I feel makes editing a bit easier on the eye
"highlight CursorLine guibg=lightgreen cterm=bold ctermbg=17
Set a distinct alias in your bash shell (usually your ~/.bashrc
file) to
edit mywiki using dokuvimki:
alias vidmywiki='vi -u ~/.dokuwiki/mywiki.vim
Now all you need to do on your bash shell prompt is issue:
vidmywiki
and you'll be automatically authenticated into mywiki while retaining all
dokuvimki specific settings within macros_dokuvim.vim
for sharing amongst
all your dokuwikis. All you have to do is copy the contents of mywiki.vim
to
mywiki2.vim
, edit the credentials and create a matching new alias for
mywiki2.vim
invocation.