[Vim-l] New tips - Feb, Mar, Apr

[John Beckett]

Robert Melton wrote:
> I am still around and kicking, had a family emergency to
> attend to, that is why I vanished for a bit.  Back home and
> catching up on everything since May 1st.

Hope everything went reasonably well - I imagined some crisis had occurred.

> As for my tips, they are more in a "help" vein (most of them)
> and I don't know if they have been getting much traffic (can
> we track that?) -- and they don't fit very cleanly with the
> rest of the site.  I believe some of them are probably good
> merge candidates, and I will attempt to find those over the
> next few weeks, see if I can remove some of them tips that
> ARE the style you are used too.

I don't think we can track traffic to an individual tip, and we certainly can't
track whether people found a tip helpful.

If you could do some merging that would be good. In the past I've made a lot of
noise about wanting to merge similar tips and delete doubtful tips. That's still
true, but we mustn't overdo it. I think that short, simple tips can be very helpful,
and long, complex tips should generally be avoided (although a few worthwhile
complex tips are good too).

> As for the purely help-based tips, if you want them removed,
> I have no issue with it.  I still believe there is room on
> the tips wiki for a help section, and I believe that creating
> a separate site or wiki for it -- would reduce value.  I
> think many times, the help someone seeks, is just a tip to
> someone else.  I see a great degree of interplay between tips
> and help.

I agree there's not much practical difference between a "help" page and a "tip"
page. Let's see how your tips evolve and talk more then. Welcome back!

John