Posts Tagged ‘vim’

How to control Firefox using Vim keybindings

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Vim users stick with Vim in no small part because muscle memory is so powerful — once you’ve learned Vim’s keybindings, it’s possible to be extremely productive in Vim without ever taking your hands off the keyboard. If you’d like to imbue Firefox with Vim power, embrace the Vimperator extension. Vimperator turns Firefox into a no-nonsense, modal Web browser.

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Change the Default Editor From Nano on Ubuntu Linux

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Many of the utilities in Ubuntu Linux use a text editor to allow you to edit configuration options and files. An example of this is using the crontab command, which allows you to edit your cron jobs using the default editor.

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Vi and Vim Cheatsheets

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

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Exploring VIM configurations

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Below are a few configurations of your vimrc
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VI and no disk space

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

If you get the error while opening a file in vi,

“There is not enough space in the file system.
[Press return to continue]”

and you know that you have space in your home directory, than simply use this command
in vi, say

:set dir=

then press:

:e .

You will be able to see the entire file.

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