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Also take a look at https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim which I found to be much simpler and easier to use.


What's the difference? When I was looking at using a wiki Vim I couldn't really see the difference between the two, why use one over the other.


I created wiki.vim after having used Vimwiki for some years. I wanted to clean up the code and make it less "bulky" - Vimwiki is a filetype plugin, a wiki linker plugin, a plugin for handling/managing todo lists, and much more. There are a lot of very good Vim plugins for e.g. Markdown filetypes and for todo lists. So, I decided I wanted to simplify and make wiki.vim with a primary focus on the wiki specific features: link and url handling and graph features. I've also included the diary/journal features.

It sort of started as a fork. And at the time, the Vimwiki maintenance was quite inactive and issues were not addressed. I tried to fix things, but the code was quite messy.


Wow, thanks for the reply. Never had a direct reply from a software creator before.

I only started using vim at the end of last year so am still very inexperienced. I'm not sure what a file type plugin is and to be honest had a hard enough time I stalling plug to get vimwiki installed. I'll take a look at wiki.vim too. I like the idea of the diary/journal. I use that in zim-wiki all the time.

Thanks again for the reply.


Plus one on that. I had some issues with vim-wiki, and wiki.vim is lighter weight and supports my work stream more easily.




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