We use FlexWiki at work. It's an ASP.NET-based wiki, a low-overhead, organic way of sharing knowledge.

The only built-in means of editing a page in FlexWiki is to type into an HTML textbox, which is a horrendous user experience. There's no WYSIWYG feedback showing you whether you've got the wiki markup right.

Back in December, Emma and I went to the Oregon coast for a week. We had no Internet access and long dark evenings, so I spent quite a bit of time on my laptop, working on a couple of projects. One was a new theme (skin) for DasBlog, which I didn't finish to my satisfaction. I really ought to get back to that.

The other was Vim syntax highlighting for FlexWiki, partially because it's useful in its own right, partially because I wanted an excuse to learn the arcane syntax highlighting mechanism in Vim.

As you can see in the picture, syntax highlighting makes the wiki markup a lot clearer than it would be in black-and-white.

I got it working satisfactorily in December, but I didn't get around to releasing it on the Vim scripts repository until last week. The week before, Bram had issued a final call for submissions of scripts for Vim 7.0, which galvanized me into releasing it as the FlexWiki Plugin for Vim.

Bram has included it in the most recent beta, Vim 7.0g, after I made a few changes. Those changes have not yet been propagated into the standalone version, but I'll try to do that later this week.