Upload Tiddlers to Tiddlywiki Directly from Vim with Vimscript
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leeand00
Jun 1, 2017, 5:33:20 PM6/1/17
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Dear Tiddlywiki Community,
I got tired of scrolling up, and scrolling down, adding a parent tag and adding the attributes caption, and order so that I could put tiddlers in a parent tiddler in the tab macro in order; I also tried writing json imports, and I got tired of dragging and dropping them to import them, so I decided it would be best to just use my buffer in vim and a mapped function in vimscript to import them directly. (Oh, and ssh), you can find it here in my .vimrc file: https://github.com/leeand00/dotfiles/blob/master/dotfiles/.vimrc the function is named TW5GenNUpload(txtFile, user, host, wikipath)
Below are my notes for using it, enjoy!
Inputs wiki text for multiple tiddlers from vim
directly into specified Tiddlywiki 5 node.js installation.
Advantages:
- NO MORE dragging and dropping json files to your wiki.
- NO MORE scrolling up and down to add captions, order, and tags to
your tiddlers for the the tab macro.
Dependencies: jq must be installed and available on your path in bash.
Best Practices:
- Use an ssh-agent and an ssh public/private key to avoid typing your
password everytime.
(see attached sample upload document for how to set that up)
- Map the function call for the document you are working on (local
machine) and host (remote server) to a function key in .vimrc.
More Detail:
1. jq reads the contents of the specified text file into a json file
of tiddlers stored in a local temp file.
2. The temp json file is then uploaded to the Tiddlywiki5 host in
the same temp directory as was created on the local host.
3. The Tiddlywiki 5 node executable is then called on the remote server
and the json temp file tiddlers are loaded into Tiddlywiki 5.
4. Restart the specified Tiddlywiki 5 instance and load it up in your
Thank you,
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