vim-markdown-wiki is a Vim plugin which eases the navigation between files in a personnal wiki based on markdown

Add the line Bundle 'mmai/vim-markdown-wiki' in your .vimrc if you use Vundle or a similar plugin manager Or copy the after/ftplugin/markdown.vim file into the $HOME/.vim/after/ftplugin/ directory

With the default key mappings :

Link creation:

• Hit the ENTER key when the cursor is on a text between brackets : [a title]
• The link will be created [a title](a-title.md) and the corresponding file will be loaded in the buffer.

Navigation:

• Hit the ENTER key when the cursor is on a wiki link
• The corresponding link file is loaded in the current buffer.
• Hit Leader key + ENTER to go back

You can set a shortcut to open links in a new split, see below

Create or go to link : nnoremap <CR> :MdwiGotoLink

Open link in a new split with SPACE + ENTER : nnoremap <Space><CR> <C-w>v:MdwiGotoLink<CR>

Return to previous page : nnoremap <Leader><CR> :MdwiReturn

You can override the default format of the titles by defining a function MdwiWriteTitle in your vim config file.

The default is :

function! MdwiWriteTitle(word)
  return 'normal!\ a'.escape(a:word, ' \').'\<esc>yypv$r=o\<cr>'
endfunction

which write the titles like this :

New page
========

Here is an example of a custom function which uses the # style instead of underlining, and adds a timestamp before the title :

 function! MdwiWriteTitle(word)
   return 'normal!\ a# '.strftime('%c').' - '.escape(a:word, ' \').'\<esc>'
 endfunction

the result is something like this, depending on your locale :

# Thu 10 Dec 2018 08:44:37 CET - New page