User talk:Lusth

Welcome!
Welcome, Lusth!

Come introduce yourself at the new users page. If you have any questions, you can ask there or contact me personally.-- – Mike.lifeguard  &#124; talk 00:25, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

SwayBot
Hello John. With a little bit of deduction I assume that this account is run by yourself? Would it be possible for you to provide some more information about what this bot is doing please? It seems to be overwriting pages here with content from another source, which doesn't quite seem in the spirit of this wiki. Also have you read WB:WIW? Your Sway programming language sounds a little bit like original research to me... Although I think I understand the reason's behind including it. Can I ask what you feel the advantage is to using Sway as opposed to an established language as a teaching aid to programming? --AdRiley (talk) 23:19, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: SwayBot
I'm finding Wikibooks very hard to figure out. I assume this is the correct way to reply.

With respect to the bot, I keep the original source on my server under subversion. When I make changes, I first run a script that downloads the book and then checks the book into subversion. If someone besides me has made changes, they get incorporated. If there are conflicts, subversion alerts me and I have to reconcile before I can add my updates. In this way, the bot doesn't trash anybody else's edits.

I know of no other way I can backup the source (wikibooks doesn't seem to allow a download of a complete book) and edit the source with vi (I don't want to learn use a mouse and menu editor and the option to use vim within wikibooks didn't work too well).

Sway is part of an NSF grant on using a functional language with simple syntax and semantics for teaching at-risk students. Although Sway is original research, the textbook is not. It is a deliverable for the grant. Wikibooks seems to be the appropriate venue. Lusth (talk) 23:05, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

editing wikibooks with vim
I'm glad to meet another vim user.

While I don't want to distract you from writing good wikibooks, I thought you might also be interested in:
 * the Wikibook "Learning the vi editor"
 * the Vim Tips wiki

While I've edited wikibooks a lot, and edited lots of files using vim, I still haven't gotten around to editing wikibooks with vim. But I hear that other people edit wikibooks with vim, using something like wikipedia-vim, the WikipediaFS, the "It's All Text" Firefox plugin, or some other text editing technique, or yet more techniques for editing wiki with vim. Please tell me if you find one that works especially well. --DavidCary (talk) 01:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)