I don’t mind. I prefer Vim anyway. Side note – the EMACS group website does not automatically flip from http to https. At least in Firefox. Oops.
Development
Vim: Always Learning
Vi (or Vim in it’s modern incarnation) is a text editor. It’s a modal text editor. You can switch from insert mode to normal mode. Insert mode is where you type text into your document, and normal mode is where you type commands that do all sorts of functions. It’s […]
Development
Howto disable syntax highlighting in Vimdiff
X > Y >> Z Where X is the population of developers who read this blog, Y is those that use Vim and Z is those that use vimdiff regularly. I guess this post will only be useful to a tiny minority of my readers, but to them it might be […]
Linux
For the love of Vim
A contributor to the Hackaday blog has a good old rant about how Vim is superior to Emacs. Of course it is (a silly argument), but he manages to give a quick overview of Vim and describes a few neat tricks beginners will find useful! And after writing the text above I […]
Linux
set -o vi FTW
The Bash command line can be edited using the cursor keys but for the real power user you need to enable Vi mode: $ set -o vi Or add it to one of your Bash startup files. Now, instead of the slow interactive editing you’ll get the command and insert […]
Linux
Learning more about Vim
I mentioned in a tweet recently that I’ve been using some form of Vi for about twenty years. It all started in college where we had highly advanced green screen monitors attached to a large Unix box. I can’t remember what Unix it was ran on that machine (it may […]
Linux
Open large files in Vim with care
If you want to load a large file in Vim you should disable the swap file to speed things up. It’s simple to do as well: Vim -n file.txt If a file is over 4096K or so and I have enough system RAM (not usually a problem) I’ll do it […]
Apple
Vim's cursor keys work in Mac OS X again
export TERM=linux Ever since my Macbook died and was fixed again Vim hasn’t worked properly in iTerm. I’m a big fan of SSH and Screen. SSH to connect to a remote server, and Screen is like a workspace organiser for your SSH session. First of all the backspace key worked […]