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Vim: Find lines longer than current line 22 Jun 2012 | 01:29 am
Vim isn't just for editing source code. It's also a pretty good data editor. Sometimes I'm editing dirty fixed-width data files, and some lines are incorrectly a bit too long because one or two field...
Happy Day Against DRM 5 May 2012 | 08:23 am
Books are 50% off at O'Reilly today, using code DRMFREE. (This includes my book, Clojure Programming, by the way...) I'm a bit late with this, given the offer expires in 9 hours, but there's still tim...
cursorcolumn / cursorline slowdown 1 May 2012 | 10:48 am
The cursorcol and cursorline options in Vim are great. Enabling them, and setting up your syntax highlighting correctly, will highlight the line and column that contains the cursor, drawing a sort of ...
Split page vertically in CSS (minus pixels) 24 Apr 2012 | 04:43 pm
I was designing an online database application recently. The layout I wanted was, I thought, fairly simple: N pixel header at the top The rest of the page split vertically into two panes Each pane ...
I don't have cancer 5 Apr 2012 | 09:29 am
2011 was an interesting year. A year of firsts! I worked on my first book, Clojure Programming (soon to be released, in fine bookstores near you). I bought my first house. The first of my maternal ...
Shuffle lines in Vim 8 Jul 2011 | 09:07 am
In a pinch, I needed to randomize the order of a few thousand lines of plain text. In Linux you can just pipe the file through sort, even right inside Vim: But I was stuck on Windows. And I don't kno...
Keyword Arguments: Ruby, Clojure, Common Lisp 25 Jun 2011 | 12:22 pm
And suddenly I return to blogging, rising from the ashes like some kind of zombie phoenix. Turns out writing a book is a good absorber of time, like some sort of heavy-duty temporal paper towel. Now t...
org-mode is awesome 21 Jan 2011 | 01:14 pm
I've seen org-mode for Emacs mentioned very frequently around the interwebs, so it went into my mental queue of topics to learn. It finally bubbled to the top this week, so I took a look. Organizer? ...
2010 in review 6 Jan 2011 | 07:10 am
Another year down the drain. A good year, in the end. 2010 Geek Achievements Wrote some code... cow-blog - The engine running this blog. oyako - Clojure ORM library. gaka - CSS compiler for Cloju...
Vim undo tree visualization 19 Oct 2010 | 10:21 am
I wrote previously about an awsome plugin to give Emacs Vim-style undo trees. Vim's undo trees are the best thing since sliced bread, but the interface for browsing through the tree is not pleasant. ...
