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I’ve been using Smultron for a few years, but thanks to Alex Hwang for reminding me that not everyone has a great, and free, text editor.
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For Emacs users on Linux one of the most efficient and important things to
do is remap your Control Key to your Caps Lock key. This is because the Caps
Lock key has such a prominent position on the home row and yet it is [...]
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For the all the geeks out there who read a lot of README, config, and MAKE files (and other text\* files without extensions) but hate having to either browse the file in TextEdit or if they want to look at it in their favorite text-editor; second-click, and then select Open With MacVim (or other) rather [...]
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We’ve talked about VIM before as one of the most powerful text editors ever created. For your normal Mac user, the power in VIM is not needed. But for developers, VIM can send your productivity through the roof.
Recently I lost all of my VIM settings due to a malformed script. Little did I know it [...]
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It’s video time, and once again we’re focusing on Quicksilver. I swear next week will be on something else.
This video will show you two different ways of managing todo lists with Quicksilver.
The first method involves the Text Manipulation plugin, using text files for managing your list.
The other option uses Remember the Milk, a free service [...]
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Snippets have become one of the must-have features in text editors thanks mainly to TextMate. Most editors now have
their own version of them; of course TextMate has it’s snippets capability built-in by default, Emacs has
snippet.el, VIM has the SnippetsEmu script (and some others [...]
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David Rayner has been writing this list of VI/VIM features for the past 21 years, and it is still updated frequently today. The
list covers the obvious things like macros, simple movement and so forth, however it also goes into detail of
the these and [...]
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VIM can be a little difficult for beginners and usually they give up, move on and go back to some weaker text
editor and ignore the fact that they would become much more efficient with VIM.
The problem I see most people having is getting their heads around modes and the commands. VIM has 3 modes, 2 [...]
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