From 1885394214392349a92eaa959e5f6acdffcd2ca2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Ball Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 14:14:41 -0600 Subject: Restructured all posts --- src/Note-taking_with_Vim.ascii | 115 ----------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 115 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/Note-taking_with_Vim.ascii (limited to 'src/Note-taking_with_Vim.ascii') diff --git a/src/Note-taking_with_Vim.ascii b/src/Note-taking_with_Vim.ascii deleted file mode 100644 index 4aea378..0000000 --- a/src/Note-taking_with_Vim.ascii +++ /dev/null @@ -1,115 +0,0 @@ -Note-taking with Vim -==================== -:author: Aaron Ball -:email: nullspoon@iohq.net - - -== {doctitle} - -Two vim posts in one day! - -My task list at work has recently become so large (it's probably well over a -year's worth of work now) that I now need to track my tasks somewhere other -than in my head (documentation is always better than tribal knowledge anyways). -I realy don't like task tracking becuase most of the applications out there are -just so heavy for what note-taking actually is. I use vim almost all day, every -day though, so why not use that (plus it's command line!)? - -I spent about thirty minutes writing this up today. It's inspired a bit by the -LifeHacker article, -http://lifehacker.com/5592047/turn-your-command-line-into-a-fast-and-simple-note+taking-tool[Turn -Your Command Line into a Fast and Simple Note Taking Tool] (thanks -http://mottr.am/[Jack Mottram]). - -This will automagically give all of your notes a .wiki extension, telling vim -to use the mediawiki text syntax highlighter (I use MediaWiki a lot to so I -figured I'd use that syntax for markup). This can be found -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_editor_support#Vim[here]. If you -want to use something else like markdown, just change the $noteExt variable at -the top to the extension associated with the highlighter you want. - -This addition will give you six new commands. - -* +**note** [NoteName]+: Opens a note for editing or creates -a new note. If no note is specified, opens the most recent note. -* +**mknote** NoteName "Note to append"+: Appends text to the -requested note. -* +**catnote** [NoteName]+: Prints the contents of the -specified note. -* +**lsnotes**+: Lists all notes by date modified -* +**findnote** SearchTerm+: Searches all notes for the -search term (case insensitive) and prints the results along with note -title and line number on which the term was found. -* +**mvnote** OldName NewName+: Renames a note -* +**rmnote** NoteName+: Deletes the specified note. - -Add the following to your .bash_profile (or .profile if you're a ksh user) - ----- -export base=~/Documents/Notes -export noteExt=wiki -# This would be used for markdown -# export noteExt=md -note() { - if [ ! -d $base ]; then - mkdir -p $base - fi - # If note not specified, open most recent - if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then - vim $(ls -t $(find $base/ -type f) | head -n 1) - else - vim $base/$1.$noteExt - fi -} - -mknote() { - echo $2 >> $base/$1.$noteExt -} - -catnote() { - # If note not specified, cat most recent - if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then - cat $(ls -t $(find $base/ -type f) | head -n 1) - else - cat $base/$1.$noteExt - fi -} - -lsnotes() { - #ls -1 $base/ | sed "s/\(.*\).$noteExt/* \1/" - echo - echo -e "Last Modified\tName" - ls -lt $base/ | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 6,7,8,9 | sed "s/^\(\w\+\) \(\w\w\) \(\w\w:\w\w\) \(.*\).wiki/\1 \2 \3\t\4/" - echo -} - -findnote() { - if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then - contents="Note:Line:Text\n\n" - contents=$contents$(find $base/ -type f | xargs grep -n -i "$1" | sed "s/.*\/\(.*\)\.$noteExt:\([0-9]\+\):\(.*\)/\1:\2:\3/") - echo -e "$contents" | column -s ":" -t - else - echo "Please specify a search term." - fi -} - -mvnote() { - mv $base/$1.$noteExt ~/Documents/Notes/$2.$noteExt -} - -rmnote() { - if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then - rm $base/$1.$noteExt - else - echo "Please specify a note." - fi -} ----- - - -Category:Linux -Category:Vim -Category:Productivity - - -// vim: set syntax=asciidoc: -- cgit v1.2.3