I am trying to figure out how to open a specific vimwiki diary on opening vim.
With one wiki I use an alias like
alias todo='vim -c VimwikiDiaryIndex'
which works perfectly.
But now I want an additional diary wiki for another set of notes. I already added the path and can change the diary inside of vim with
2<Leader>wi.
But I don't know how to combine it with my alias commands. (Something like -c 2VimwikiDiaryIndex does not work.
Does someone know how I could get it done?
I'm guessing here but it seems you are trying to run normal mode mappings in batch mode (IOW, vim -c <cmd>). Your 2wi ... I'm assuming that refers to [count]<Leader>wi, a VimWiki mapped command in the docs...?
To run such mappings you need to use the norm command (:h :norm).
For example, vim -c 'norm 2\wi' if your Leader key is the default \ (backslash).
BTW, if you want to run multiple commands using this method just use a separate -c for each. Example:
vim -c 'norm 2\wi' -c 'wq'
:normal and not :normal! here, since :normal! doesn't expand mappings. From :help :normal: "If the [!] is given, mappings will not be used." Otherwise, answer looks good.
Commented
Aug 9, 2019 at 13:53
vim -c 'e /tmp/b' -c 'norm G /1' -c 'wq'. Lord knows why in between there and here I decided subconsciously to add some bangs :P
Add a function like this to you ~/.bashrc:
function vimwikidiary() {
vim -c "VimwikiIndex $1" -c VimwikiDiaryIndex
}
If you run with no arguments of with argument 1, this will open the diary index of the first wiki:
$ vimwikidiary
$ vimwikidiary 1
If you run with argument 2, this will open the diary index of your second wiki:
$ vimwikidiary 2
