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Vim Tip: Edit GPG files transparently

2012-02-21T09:06:36Z

A super quick Vim tip today courtesy of Patrick R. McDonald. I was looking for a nice way to have Vim open up files that I had GPGed. That is how I store passwords and its a faff and potentially insecure to decrypt, edit and resave. Nicer to have Vim open your GPG file directly. Patrick’s solution, Using GPG with Vi, based on work by Wouter Hanegraaff is just what I needed, using Vim’s aucmd functionality to prompt for passwords and to switch off viminfo and swap file. The caveat is that your kernel may write decrypted data to swap. But then of course you’ve encrypted your swap partition, right?

Video: Quick HTML Editing With Vim

2011-05-19T11:22:02Z

This is the minimalistest of minimalist web casts, just to show off the awesomeness of a couple of vim modules for quick html h4x0ring. Specifically Surround and snipMate. w00t!

January 2011 Reading

2011-02-25T22:16:20Z

This is a frankly awesome critique of the (mid-90s) left's 'master' narritive of totalised global capitalism. The books central insights are gleaned from feminism and are all about the possibility of imagining non-capitalist economies and acknowledging that those economies actually exist alongside and inside global capitalism. Like a sort of Judith Butler for Marxian political economists. 2011-01-29 by Charlie Harvey The Situationists and The City, Ed Tom McDonough

Vimperator Tip: Cut and paste with ctrl-c/ctrl-v

2011-02-15T21:51:59Z

I'm a huge fan of the Vimperator Firefox plugin. It works just like you'd want it to and doesn't break much. Well, it breaks one useful thing, which is the almost universal ctrl-c/ctrl-v cut and paste shortcuts. So, I was well chuffed to find a Vimperator cut and paste tip on superuser. I've extended the tip so that it works in all of the Vim modes.

Vim tip - Preview webpage source

2009-06-14T12:23:45Z

Here's a neat little trick for people who have a *nix setup, vim and lynx browser. I've remapped my F8 Key to use lynx to dump the nicely formatted source of a web page in a new window. Useful for testing if your site is working. In my .vimrc I added the following lines: " split at the bottom of the screen set sb " map F9 to open the new window, and type the lynx command for you noremap :10sp /dev/null:r! lynx -prettysrc -source http:// " well, you have to be able to refresh! noremap :%s/.//:r! lynx -prettygg0"