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Category Archives: Life of a Web Developer
Developer musings – should I put them here or on a separate site?
Hi there – a question for you! Answer it in the comments.
I have lots of stuff I could potentially share and that I run into all the time. I’ve been holding off on blogging too much here because I’m not sure if it would fit the page.
I see on other developer’s sites though that they [...]
VIM: Moving around windows made a little easier (and how to escape without Esc)
This is a quick post with some shortcuts I just implemented in my vimrc file that I just felt compelled to share with the world.
It answers the question, “Are you tired of hitting Ctrl-W to move around windows?” Then do I have the solution for you!
Pop these guys into your vimrc file:
nnoremap <S-C-h> <C-W>h
nnoremap <S-C-j> [...]
Also posted in Tips Tagged moving around windows, vim, vim maps, vim shortcuts, vimrc Leave a comment
Code merging with VIM
So today I had the chance to learn about vimdiff, VIM’s mode for file comparison and merging. It was a lot better than I expected!
When I switched to using Ubuntu for my day-to-day local testing (because I need reliable Xdebug, and Windows Vista’s Apache-PHP module just wasn’t cutting it as far as Xdebug stability goes), [...]
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Coding on phone; Vim pays off
Learning more Vim paid off the other day. I edited a couple files on a remote server using my T-Mobile G1 along with the ConnectBot program. The process was, of course, pretty simple.
Start ConnectBot on the G1.
Connect to the server.
cd to the directory containing the file I wanted to edit.
Type vim <name of file>
Edit as [...]





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