Tag: VIM

XSel, for command-line operations on X selections

Since I first learned that Windowmaker installs two command-line tools, wxcopy and wxpaste, to play around with X selections, I have wanted to be able to make and use X selections from my Bash shell. wxcopy and wxpaste never did what I expected them to do, so I gave up until recently I learned about all the different X selections. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on January 31, 2010, at 23:01 | No comments

Pasting in Vim

When you want to paste in Vim, you want vim to not use indenting, because that messes up your code. I used to use :insert, but on some machines, it would still indent. I discovered the :set paste command, which works quite well.

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By halfgaar, 2 months ago, on January 03, 2010, at 13:01 | 3 comments

VIM insert mode shortcuts

A few months back, I stumbled upon a blog post with some interesting VIM shortcuts for within insert mode. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 months ago, on October 09, 2009, at 23:10 | 1 comment

VIM tips for editing prose

I was transcribing a draft for a manuscript. Using VIM, of course. But, I found my VIM skills to be lacking somewhat, enough to become sufficiently annoyed to investigate the holes. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on September 07, 2009, at 12:09 | No comments

Editing Wikipedia/MediaWiki articles with VIM

Wikipedia has a number of tips for people who like to edit Wikipedia articles with VIM. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 8 months ago, on July 10, 2009, at 10:07 | No comments

With Vimperator it almost feels as if I can control Firefox

Wednesday, after returning to Groningen from Barcelona, I saw Ying using Vimperator. I was sold immediately. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 9 months ago, on June 07, 2009, at 23:06 | 3 comments

VIM modelines for per-file configuration

The MediaWiki developers use tabs instead of spaces for indentation. This can be annoying for someone like me who has configured VIM to work with spaces by default—annoying because I don't want to enter something like :set tabstop=4 noexpandtab shiftwidth=4 every time that I open a file. Adding different conditions for each project to my .vimrc is probably possible but not much fun. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 2 years ago, on August 21, 2008, at 20:08 | 4 comments