July 27, 2007 10:06am

Snippets for Vim

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One of the most raved about features of TextMate is snippet expansion. Felix Ingram has written a Vim plugin that emulates this behaviour, SnippetEmu. I haven't had much of a play with it yet, but it looks like a real time saver. You need Vim 7, and make sure you have the following in your vimrc:filetype on
filetype plugin on

March 22, 2007 10:24am

I hate the mouse

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I hate using a mouse. I much prefer to work with the keyboard. I also do a lot of work in a browser. One of the most useful keyboard shortcuts I've come across in Firefox is the apostrophe. If you want to go to a link, simply type ' and start typing the link text. For example, gootodo doesn't have any keyboard shortcuts, but I can create a new todo by typing 'new and hitting enter. That's quicker than moving my hand to the mouse and moving to the link. You can also go to the detail of a particular ...
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