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Re: Placing wiki files/folders in $HOME

 

Just keep in mind that deleting pages from the zim wiki will also
delete/trash the related folder from your home directory.

-- Jaap


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Iago Mosqueira <iago.mosqueira@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 23 November 2011 17:30, Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Iago Mosqueira <
> iago.mosqueira@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have been thinking about setting up my zim wiki in the folder
> >> structure of $HOME, so notes in folders are placed exactly where they
> >> best belong, together with the files for that particular issue.
> >>
> >> The only showstopper is that folders/namespaces in zim are formed by a
> >> folder and a text file, so I would end up with lots of files with no
> >> content, in my case, cluttering up the filesystem. So, for example, I
> >> would have
> >>
> >> $HOME/Projects/
> >> $HOME/Projects.txt
> >> $HOME/Projects/First.txt
> >>
> >> when I would rather have
> >>
> >> $HOME/Projects/
> >> $HOME/Projects/First.txt
> >>
> >> So no file for a namespace that has only child pages but no content
> >> itself.
> >>
> >> Is this doable at all with the current code? Would it be possible by
> >> hacking at zim's code without too much getting broken?
> >
> > Actually this behavior depends on how you create the pages. In this case
> I
> > assume you first did "new page" Projects and then "new page" First.
> > Effectively asking zim for an empty page "Projects". However if you click
> > "new page" and then immediately tpye "Projects:First" it will not create
> the
> > empty page. Alternatively you can navigate directly to the
> not-yet-existing
> > page, for example using "jump to", and start typing, also in that case
> there
> > will be no empty parent created.
> >
> > REgards,
> >
> > Jaap
>
>
> Thanks, that does the trick. And in fact setting the base folder of a
> new wiki as $HOME brings up all the folder tree. Very nice.
>
>
> Iago
>

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