Archive for the 'Vim'

So there’s been some scuttlebutt on the Twitters recently regarding this “Pathogen” script for Vim and I decided to have a look. In a word? “Sweet”. In a few words? Tim Pope is the absolute man. This is an extremely simple and elegant script. All it does is...
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Rick over at Lococast.Net has some great screencasts up for Vim. I’ve watched a couple of them now, and I’m a happy dood… nice stuff! Go check ‘em out. Go… go now… stop… no, don’t do that, you know what I mean… that thing you were going to...
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There’s a new video online in the Advanced Section called Globals, Commands and Functions. Go check it out.

Alright… I’ve had a lot of traffic lately and a lot of people emailing me (something’s occurred on the inter-web recently that’s picked up the interest in these videos beyond the usual 1k views per week… I don’t know what it was). This has sparked my interest in...
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In an upcoming video tutorial, I’ll be doing a bit of work with the :redir command. This is a great Vim facility but it can be helped with a function wrapper. I’m including that wrapper here: function! RedirToClipboardFunction(cmd, ...) let cmd = a:cmd . " " . join(a:000, " ") ...
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I’ve had a number of people ask me when my next Vim Video is going to go online… I know it’s been a while since I put one up, and unfortunately it’s going to be a while longer. Work has picked up in the last little while and on top of that, I’m buying a new house and...
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If you want to change settings / options based on the filetype there are a couple of ways you can do it. Using an Autocommand You can do this with an autocmd in your vimrc. Let’s assume you want to change some of the indenting rules for perl and html. augroup indent_settings au! ...
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I’ve managed to throw together a video on Insert Mode today. I’m not supremely happy with this one… it was a bit rushed as I only had a short amount of time between the moments when my daughter pulls on my pant-leg asking me to do “something”. I may redo this one,...
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I’ve managed to cobble together a video that introduces Vim’s modes. Have a look at it right here.

I just happened to see this story at engadget and dug a little deeper to find the EigenHarp at EigenLabs. This is possibly the coolest friggin’ MIDI Controller (almost) on the market today. It’s ridiculously expensive – way out of my price range at close to $7000 (it is just a...
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