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vim completion

I’ve just found something rather useful in vim: :set wildmode. Normally in vim, you can use TAB to complete filenames. So you enter :e some/ve<TAB> and vim pads it out to :e some/very_long_filename.html. Lovely.
But in a directory full of files with similar prefixes, it’s less than helpful. I hit :e [...]

Posted 30 October 2008 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

My Sysadmin Toolbox

After seeing lots of these at Linux.com recently, I thought I’d try to come up with my own list. I used to be a sysadmin (I’m now a programmer), and I’ve long felt that you really a good set of tools (and to know how to use them) in order to be most productive.

zsh
I [...]

Posted 17 April 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

A Month of Mac

It’s now been a month since my shiny new Mac arrived. Overall, I’m still really, really happy with it. I’ve bought NetNewsWire for feed reading and textmate for editing. I’m a little concerned that I don’t have the source code for my editor, but we’ll see how that goes.
I’m normally a devout [...]

Posted 03 February 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Vim Syntax for Textile

I’ve been using textile more and more these days. It’s quite convenient for writing.
But what’s annoying is that there is no support for it in Vim.
So, after a bit of messing around with the vim manual Your own syntax highlighted, I now have textile.vim.
It’s definitely a first attempt at such things. There’s a [...]

Posted 25 January 2006 † dom § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: