HowToEditWikiPagesWithVim
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- First, set your Lynx editor: g
- Use "o" to get to the options page Set the editor to "vi", "vim" , "emacs" or whatever.
- "Accept Changes" This sets it for one session. Different versions of Lynx will save your options in different ways: tap a ">" in older ones and Click a checkbox in others to save options to disk.
- On a Wiki page, select "Edit" - Move the cursor onto an edit field on the Wiki edit page.
- Control-X e. This will bring the form up in your editor.
- When done editing, save and exit (in emacs, control-x control-s control-x control-c; in vi/m, :wq. - Now select "save" on the Wiki edit page.
That's it! Now you can spellcheck your wiki documents, use formatting, text highlighting, search/replace etc etc. basically, all the best things about text editors, and wikis. what a relief.
- h, this page was slightly adapted from the one here:
