[Vim-l] Workflow

[John Beckett]

Santhalus wrote:
> BTW, I noticed some titles have some special chars replaced 
> (like OPENPAREN instead of [). Is it possible to escape them 
> somehow (nowiki does not seem to work in titles) or we must 
> get rid of them completely?

It's not particularly well documented, but I believe that the
following advice is correct:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Title_guidelines

Summary:
  Impossible:       # < > [ ] | { }
  Strongly avoid:   ? + _ : %
  OK:               -
  Avoid:            All other punctuation

So we cannot use '[' etc, and will need a lot of imaginative renaming.

The main reason to avoid all other punctuation is to give clean URLs (to
avoid things like ',' appearing as '%2C' in a URL). We don't have to get
hung up about eliminating punctuation, but there are many titles which don't
really need commas etc, and where reasonable, I think we should try to omit
them.

Another issue will be capitalisation. I favour the Wikipedia standard where
all words in a title are lowercase, except for the first word and proper
names. IMHO the name of the editor is "Vim" (not "vim"), and if you have to
talk about "Windows" (as in MS-Windows), it should start with 'W'.

John