Category Archives: vim

More life saving RegEx

I have a lot of trouble with switching between the various computers I end up using… http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_end-of-line_format_for_dos-mac-unix

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FalconPL snippets for Vim

I have created a set of snippets for the Falcon programming language. Contributions are welcome and suggested. I’ve already opened a pull request to have them included in Snippets.vim; we’ll see if they get included. There is never a guarantee … Continue reading

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24″ HP Monitor vs Fonts

What on earth is it about monitors that makes them all render my fonts differently?? At work I have twin DELL 19″ 3:4 LCD displays. At home a 24″ HP 16:9 LCD and they seem to render things completely differently. … Continue reading

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Oh boy!

Well, I finally Gentoo installed again and half way configured. I’m running AMD64 with Fluxbox and Awesome and I’m logging in through SLiM. If you goto the Gentoo Wiki I wrote the whole page on SLiM so if you need … Continue reading

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Vim Plugins

I’ve never written by own Vim plugin but I spent the past couple of days hacking other peoples to see if I could get them to do things they weren’t intended to do. Well, the good news it did what … Continue reading

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Vim Update + Perl Hate

First, I’ve updated my vim scripts again. Please don’t ask me what changed. I don’t know and I don’t keep them in a git repository. Personally, I think me opening up a free account at like say GitHub just for … Continue reading

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Vim Filetypes

At work I do a lot of work with Oracle databases. Which also means I end up doing a lot of editing of files with funny endings like *.psc, *.prog, *.proc. Mostly file type endings that are meaningless and made … Continue reading

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Vim Fonts

I know very little about fonts or how they work but that doesn’t stop me from attempting to learn. So today I opened up Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition for Visual Basic and thought to myself, “Gee that’s a good … Continue reading

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Using Vi

I use Vim a lot. For almost all my text editing on a regular basis. On my Mac I use MacVim. I have XCode installed. Wonderful program I guess but I have yet to use it. But how many people … Continue reading

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Vim Updates

After my last post I attempted to go through my vimrc and move as much as I felt I really could (for now) to my gvimrc. I supposed it does make sense to have it both ways (see my previous … Continue reading

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