Cheeky cow.

Who said "Registry"?

 

I think you missed the tongue buried in his cheek....

 

It's the bog standard ispell I believe. I have spill check bound to F7.

 

Ta. The line that prawns posted is quite a nice one, it is.

 

Heh. If I can muster a tuit, I may scribble up my custom settings.

 

I lied it uses "spell".
Slap the below in ~/.vimrc and Robert is your mother's brother.

set textwidth=72
map <F6> <Esc>:setlocal nospell<CR>
map <F7> <Esc>:setlocal spell spelllang=en_gb<CR>

 

Ah-ha! A man who knows mappings in .vimrc !?

Any idea if there's the equivalent of a $0 in there?
--
des
'As I write, civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill
me'
(George Orwell (1903 - 1950))
<http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/>

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is fine if you only use vim for USENET posts ;-)

 

Mostly email usage. It plays nicely with mutt and many other things.

I am particularly fond of the go to line function.
<esc> <number> shift G.
with 0 being the end of the file and 1 being the beggining.

It's handy for those "You typed like a retarded 3 toed sloth at line 1253"
compilation errors Perl gives you when you.... Well... Type like a retarded
3 toed sloth.

 

That's funny, I always just type :<number>

My favourite ones are the stuff like "c2W" for "change two words", or
"ct>" for change until the next angle bracket.

I only really got into using vim because it was the only editor installed
by default on the Unix boxes we had to develop on. It looks a bit clunky
when compared to modern tools like Eclipse which can do automatic
refactoring operations.

 

You guys are fucking nuts. Why you don't just use a proper editor/OS
is anyone's guess.

 

Such as?

And editor wars, seriously?

 

By 'eck, them were 'days.

I confess that my first few months of programming were done on punch
cards, although we were only allowed to use the cardpunch machine for
debbugging, relying on EBCDIC coding sheets sent to the 'punch room'
to input most of the code.

Bwaahaahaa. The idea of considering those editors to be wysiwyg!

Never heard of it.

Heh. We get some of that, with mysterious line feeds and other
unprintable characters sometime creeping into programs. And yet still
some of my colleagues insist on using archaic but 'powerful' editors.

<Bookmarked>

 

I used to have a colleague[1] like that. He insisted on using Vi, while
the rest of us used a proper SQL tool with error highlighting,
automatic formatting etc. The result was everything he did took several
times longer. He doens't work for us anymore.

[1] He should've been my boss, but I refused to work for him.

 

Who said "sudo rm -rf /etc/"?

 

Aww bollocks: clicked the wrong button and emailed it too.

 

Well at least you didn't type it into a terminal and press enter.

 

Hah. I did pretty much that the other day: a networked test unit I
wanted to use wasn't responding, and I remembered that my system was
its DHCP server, so I enabled DHCP. And it still didn't bloody want to
talk. After much head scratching, I finally twigged that I'd just
enabled DHCP on a totally different server that I was SSH'd into in
another console window.

IT haven't come round with an axe, so I guess the server was set up
for some safe address ranges, or for specific host addresses.