Category Archives: Vim

Firefox extension I’m loving: It’s All Text!

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Want to use your favorite text editor to write text for online applications? Check out It’s All Text! This add-on allows you to edit text from any “textarea” on a Web page in an external editor. Once it’s installed, you … Continue reading →

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Vim Tip: using “paste” to avoid the staircase effect

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

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. … Continue reading →

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Vim 401: Extending Vim and More

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Vim 301: Getting Adept at Vim

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Vim 201: An Intermediate Guide to Vim

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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Lazyweb: Vim to gist.github.com?

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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New Gaim 2.0 beta 3 packages — now for Dapper Drake!

Posted on June 14, 2006 by Joe Brockmeier

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 … Continue reading →

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