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vim: change current directory

I like using the excellent FuzzyFinder plugin for vim. It’s usefulness is heavily dependent on keeping the current directory what I want, though, because otherwise I could do a lot of drilling. I found that I needed a better way … Continue reading

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A brief journey back into to emacs-land

In an earlier post, I said that I am no longer going to deny myself the pleasure of dabbling in different editors. It was my interpretation of the “use one editor; use it well” mantra I got from the pragmatic … Continue reading

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vim and the enter key

This is just a quick update on how I’m using the enter key in vim. The sticky shift-enter key configuration didn’t work out for me. After pressing shift-enter once, I found that I would press shift-enter again, expecting it to … Continue reading

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vim and vimperator, a few weeks later

A few weeks ago, I started using vim as my main text editor. Soon after that, I installed the vimperator Firefox extension on my main computer. A few days into the use of these two tools, I was really excited … Continue reading

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Idea: Sticky Shift-Enter in vim

I set up vim to use enter to get out of insert mode. This prevents frequently having to reach for the escape key or use a multi-key combination. To insert a new line while in insert mode, I now use … Continue reading

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