Archive for August, 2009

I took a shot at the C++ no-namespace indenting for Vim and thought I had it, but of course this sort of thing is always a pain. I think it’s more solid now but I make no guarantees :). You can find the indent code as part of the General C++ Settings file that should go in...
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I made an enhancement to Protodef to allow for the ability to eliminate the namespace when pulling in the prototypes. So now you can make them look like this: Read more
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(NOTE: There’s a more up to date version of this in the General C++ Settings section.) Finally! Vim’s decision to add a ‘shiftwidth‘ to everything I type when I’m inside a namespace is thoroughly annoying and there appears to be no “standard” way to fix...
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Ah, now this is complete bliss… I’m writing to you straight from within MacVim using the blogit.vim script. Up until now, the best way I could use Vim to write up on this site was to use MacVim‘s great little feature of hacking Cocoa to allow you to edit any NSTextField natively...
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Snapshot 49 is out! Thanks a lot, Björn and supporters for this great version of Vim for the Mac. Well done.

I use Vim mostly at work on Windows (don’t even get me started on that lovely O/S), working on two different machines – my desktop and my laptop – neither of which are backed up. That presents a couple of problems: How do I keep the two machines up to date with each other? How...
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I’ve completed the video series on the Vim BASIC Movement Tutorials. Pick it up here.  It’s also catalogued on this site, right here.

Yup, I’m an idiot. I’ve had a Dreamhost account for a long time now, mostly for the email address, and I went to WordPress.com to set up my vim-related blog – the free one. Why the hell would I do that?? Dreamhost gives me the same thing, plus all the extras because I’ve...
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Ever been inside a code block and want to reformat (via ==) a number of lines but not the whole file and not line by line? Let’s say you’ve got code like this: Read more
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David Fishburn (of vim_use Mailing List and other fame), suggested that I put up some videos regarding the vimrc file, and I thought that this was a great idea, so I started this morning – not with the videos though :) I want to get a decent idea of what I want to talk about before diving...
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