Contributing

This book is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, and its complete text is available in a Git repository. All contributions are welcomed. Patches are preferred, but if you're not comfortable with Git you can use the issue tracker as described below.

Issue Tracker

You may report typographical errors, factual mistakes, or unclear passages via the web-based issues tool at github.com/runpaint/vim-recipes/issues.

E-mail

You can send patches and bug reports to runrun@runpaint.org.

Patches

The source for this book is available in a Git repository. If you have Git installed on your system you may clone the repository using the URL git://github.com/runpaint/vim-recipes.git. (For an introduction to Git see the Git Community Book).

You'll probably want to do something like this:

  $ git clone git://github.com/runpaint/vim-recipes.git
  Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/vim-recipes/.git/
  remote: Counting objects: 666, done.
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (610/610), done.
  remote: Total 666 (delta 350), reused 0 (delta 0)
  Receiving objects: 100% (666/666), 407.52 KiB | 35 KiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (350/350), done.
  
  $ cd vim-recipes
  $ vim text/04_basics/09_configuring_vim.html
  $ git commit -a
  

Then either send me a patch (runrun@runpaint.org), or post it to the issue tracker.

Alternatively, if you already use GitHub, fork the repository, make your changes, then send me a pull request.