Interlude
Looking over the recent posts.. it seems I write about text editors a lot. I came on here to write a post about a text editor. I’ve instead opted to write about one or two other things as well. [...]
NeoVim
So. I just found out about NeoVim (sometimes abbreviated nvim) today. Which could be called “slow”, seeing as their Bountysource fundraiser ended a month ago. There was a post to the Vim Developer Google group mailing list, which saw a reply from Bram Moolenar and got some fairly heated discussion. A corresponding reddit thread has some fairly understandable cynicism of [...]
Vim and iOS Programming
This last semester I’ve been having to do iOS programming. I’m not an expert Vim user, but I use Vim enough such that, without being overzealous, I found I really missed the motion keys and other such things. Others have gone before me on this topic. Here, here, here; (and the other text editor has some stuff like here). Fortunately [...]
Online Resources for Git
While using the basics of Git (and other DVCSs) such as commit, push, pull or even merge are fairly straightforward to use, there’s a lot to Git which needs to be understood in case things go wrong while trying to do these things.
I can’t be alone in using Git without having a good understanding of what’s going on [...]
Tools
Bram Moolenaar, the fella who created ViM, talked in 2007 about how to be effective with your editor. Given that programmers love to disagree about which text editor is best, it comes as a surprise to see in this video that Bram isn’t big on “ViM is the best”. - The general guideline he gives is along the lines of [...]
Gee Tee Ayy
Continuing the trend of discussing videogames before I’ve quite finished playing them.. I’ve recently had a go at playing through “the best GTA for the PC”, GTA:San Andreas. Now I can comment about whether Saints Row is a GTA clone. - it’s not. Saints Row is actually fun. Well. GTA:SA is fun in its own kindof way.
But when [...]
Confession About VIM
I’ve gotta admit. I’m not as much of a Vimmer as I wish I was.
For all my lack of it, the Vim I use is more of a “modern Vim” where the emphasis is much more on the use of plugins to enable stuff to get done. (As an example, using the YouCompleteMe plugin to get some pretty [...]
Paradox of Fandom
I’d say I like reading. I read a fair number of books in a year. Too bad, though, that I can now kindof see why some of those folk on GoodReads would rate books much more harshly than I would have.
Because they’ve probably read many more books than I have, and didn’t enjoy the book as much as [...]
Thoughts on GitHub's Atom
Programmers love to discuss and argue over irrelevant issues. One such issue is “which text editor to use”.
Some folk side-step the issue with the pragmatic “use whatever works”, but that misses out on the fun. The current state of things is that for the hardcore, Vim and Emacs are the editors of choice. Sublime Text (ST) is also [...]
Shit Arguments
This came up on my newsfeed:
http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/ Those of you enamoured with the romance of “Oh, but the government is so shit” may enjoy it, I suppose. I myself don’t know much about economics.. but the above just seems a poor argument.
It draws those it disagrees with as ugly and stupid, and those it agrees with as [...]