Comments on: Geek User Interface

By: gse

gse — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:50:49 +0000

mmmm…… pine.

By: Victor Laszlo

Victor Laszlo — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:37:02 +0000

Now we have to get you using Pine and the transformation will be complete.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:11:32 +0000

Everyone has a favorite stupid vi trick. You didn’t ask, but I can’t stand it. I have to share mine: recorded buffers.

qa = start recording all my keystrokes in buffer a
esc (if you’re in insert mode) q = stop recording my keystrokes.

Then there’s the joy of having all those buffers recorded:

@a = run the keystrokes in buffer a.
32@a = run the keystrokes in @a 32 times.

I know some explanations don’t travel well without demonstration (or everyone would be in love with vi — right?) so if I explain badly, ask Scott what I’m babbling about. He knows.

By: kent

kent — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:10:36 +0000

Hi-ya Sarah,

I just thought I would do you the disservice of telling you that you were featured in yesterday’s blog of the day at:

http://syndicatescape.com/bigblogzoo/

take care

kent

By: A friend who misses late night im

A friend who misses late night im — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 05:31:37 +0000

gvim is great :-) Make sure to grab some of Adam’s helpful aliases, too, like the one that will make gvim’s cwd the same as the dir of the file your editing.

By: Sean Corfield

Sean Corfield — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:15:45 +0000

Ah, the joys of ‘vi’…

Back when I was on the C++ Standards Committee, I used a Psion handheld computer as my primary traveling machine and had a port of ‘vi’ running on it that I used to edit the troff pages that generated the ISO/ANSI draft documents.

Admittedly I used the Psion word processor for taking meeting notes (I was secretary of J16 for three years)…

I’ll be interested to read how you get on with Eclipse. I use it for all my day-to-day coding these days. It has its quirks but overall it’s a good, solid IDE.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:54:18 +0000

emacs still lives on the west coast in Laszlo Studios!! Even though most of the old guard uses vim, there’s still a strong emacs contingency. I must admit that it is beautiful to see folks editing when they’re on a roll with vim.