Category Archives: Vim
Vim Tip: using "paste" to avoid the staircase effect
If you're working in Vim and paste something into the terminal, sometimes you'll get a "staircase" effect where each line is progressively spaced farther outward, like so:
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
Obviously, this isn't usually desirable.
To correct this, you can enable paste to prevent the staircase effect. In command mode, [...]
Vim 401: Extending Vim and More
Now that you've learned your way around Vim, I wanted to focus the last piece in the series on extending Vim with scripts and plugins, and some other features that users should be aware of.
If you've been following this series so far, you know how to move around in Vim, setting up mappings and abbreviations, [...]
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Vim 301: Getting Adept at Vim
If you've read and worked with the previous two tutorials on Vim, you're probably getting reasonably comfortable with the editor. At this point, you should be able to get around very nicely. This time around, I'd like to look at some more advanced features and demonstrate briefly how to set up a Vim configuration file, [...]
Vim 201: An Intermediate Guide to Vim
Ready to boost your Vim skills? Many use Vim, but don't make use of nearly all the features. In this guide, we'll take a look at some of the intermediate features offered by Vim, including abbreviations, word completion, and editing multiple documents in the same Vim session.
In the previous installment I took a look at [...]
Lazyweb: Vim to gist.github.com?
Dear Lazyweb: I'd like to sync drafts from Vim to gist.github.com. I suspect that this is a problem someone else has solved. Anyone know a good site with scripts or tips on how to do this?
Basically I want my workflow to be something like this: Create document in Vim, sync to gist.github.com (preferably private unless [...]
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New Gaim 2.0 beta 3 packages -- now for Dapper Drake!
Since Dapper is out now, I've had a request for an amd64 package of the Gaim 2.0 beta 3 for Dapper. I'm throwing in a x86 package at no additional charge. Should be stable, but standard caveats apply -- may be unstable, eat your data, or otherwise do terrible nasty things to your computer. If [...]
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