VIM reStructed Text
Posted by John Vincent (jv) on Jul 05 2006 at 11:20 PM
/dev/log >> Linux

I do all the notes I'm posting in the /nagios section in vim. I want to spend my time on content and NOT on HTML tags. I could integrate these notes into the WB interface but I'd much rather use vim for the whole process.

You can get and read up on vst here.

It's a VERY cool plugin that allows you to use special text constructs and then run the :Vsti macro in vim 7 to save the text file as HTML.

A good example is to look at my DB2 Monitoring notes (text version / html version) and compare the text with the generated output.

I would HIGHLY suggest anyone who creates a lot of quick documentation to start using it. I've even installed vim 7 and the VST plugin on my work windows laptop to start documenting there.