I think I already established that Vim makes an excellent pager. Let me take it one step further: Vim is a customizable, programmable pager. (!) There are plenty of cases where you want to pick one (1) thing out of a list. Vim can easily be made into a list picker. A few examples pick [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Vim as a List Picker
Posted in development on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Using vim as a pager
Posted in cli, vim on May 24, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve talked casually about using Vim as a pager before. However, I’m still surprised to see how many people use Vim regularly and don’t know about this feature. Here’s a quote straight from vim –help vim [arguments] – read text from stdin Admittedly, it’s easy to overlook the hyphen in the explanation. Why Vim as [...]
Git Diff with Vimdiff
Posted in development on May 17, 2009 | 30 Comments »
What happens when you type git diff? As with all interesting questions, the answer is “it depends…” Here’s one thing you want git to do: Vimdiff! Step 1: add this to your .gitconfig [diff] external = git_diff_wrapper [pager] diff = Step 2: create a file named git_diff_wrapper, put it somewhere in your $PATH #!/bin/sh vimdiff "$2" "$5" I [...]
Code Tetris
Posted in development on May 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“How did we get into this mess?” you exclaim looking at the code equivalent of: There are a lot of reasons why projects end up looking like that. Beyond incompetence, there is the realization that you know more about a problem after you solve it. Here’s a familiar scenario: You extract an ugly part of [...]
Next page bookmarklet
Posted in development on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Most useful websites use some form of pagination. However, link relations are not in widespread use. I liked the explanation: Regular links (<a href>) simply point to another page. Link relations are a way to explain why you’re pointing to another page. They finish the sentence “I’m pointing to this other page because…” I know [...]
