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VIM & Perl tidbit

sboss — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:26:57 +0000

All of us can use tidbits of knowledge or help every now and then.

For all of use that use PERL a lot (which is me!), then any tidbit of help we can get is great!. From this article, we get the tidbit below.

If you’re primarily a Perl hacker and don’t use C much, you might find it annoying when you hit ‘K’ in command mode. That’s because VIM runs something like this:

    nmap K :Map

I’ve just added the following to my .vimrc:

    noremap K :!perldoc   perldoc -f

Now when you type ‘K’ in command mode, it will call up the appropriate perldoc, if possible.

Micro$haft is taking over Yahoo!

sboss — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:53:00 +0000

Opps Micro$haft has done it again. They have decided to take over the world by friendly or unfriendly means.

Several sites have articles (one, two, three) about how Mico$haft is doing a forced takeover of Yahoo!. They are doing it since Yahoo! did not want to partner with them. Or something to that effect. Now one of the two largest search engine/free webmail/news sites (the other being google) is going to go away. Mico$haft will integrate what they can, nix the rest over probably the next 12-18 months. So basically Yahoo! is dead.

Writer’s Tools

sboss — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:05:32 +0000

Dmitri Popov from Tumbling Writer has written a nice plugin/extention for OpenOffice.

Download the latest plugin. It works on Mac, and Windows (and who knows what other platforms).