I’m a programmer which naturally means I hate performing repetitive tasks… Publishing my Vim plug-ins quickly turned out to fall in this category; I’d keep making the same mistakes and having users e-mail me because I screwed up again and uploaded a broken release to www.vim.org. After a while this got embarrassing so I decided to solve this annoying problem once and for all. This git repository contains the results in the form of two Python scripts:
This program makes it easier for me to publish my Vim plug-ins on GitHub and Vim Online. This is what I use to publish my plug-ins on http://www.vim.org. It might be a bit specific to my workflow but you never know, someone might find it useful :-)
This Python module converts Markdown formatted text to Vim’s help file format. I created this code because I write a README.md document for every project I publish on GitHub and thought it would be nice to include these documents in a more readable format with the ZIP archives I upload to http://www.vim.org. The code is basically one big hack, desperately trying to avoid becoming a multi pass parser but it works and I’m happy with it, so there ;-)
This Python script works in the same way as mkd2vimdoc.py except that it takes HTML as input which makes it more flexible, for example I use it to convert the Lua, LPeg and Lua/APR manuals to Vim’s help file format. This script already does more than mkd2vimdoc.py but it still has some warts I want to fix before I forget about mkd2vimdoc.py and switch to html2vimdoc.py completely.
Last updated Sun Jan 15 04:04:49 UTC 2012.