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Random thoughts, ideas and experiences

My Vim customization

In my previous post, I mentioned how I migrated back to Vim for my development environment. Vim is fantastic but the default settings may not suit your needs. Given that Vim does not provide a GUI based configuration mechanism, getting it to fit your needs will take a bit of tweaking .VIM files and scavenging Google for tips. This was part of the reason why I stuck to Eclipse for so long.

Anyway, I have finally customized Vim enough to use it full time. Below is a list of my customizations; perhaps it will be of use to you.

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Twitter Updates

  • Posting from jstweet on the iPhone, my new Javascript based Twitter client. Any beta testers interested? 2 hours ago
  • Javascript Twitter client coming along very nicely. Lots of challenges but worth the effort. 1 day ago
  • Expect a blog post on iframe and XHR nonsense soon. This cross scripting restriction has totally turned me off on web mashups. 2 days ago
  • Ridiculous how much effort I've put into figuring out consistent iframe behavior across browsers and cross domain security restrictions. 2 days ago
  • TV.com available only in the US. Ridiculous, the rest of the world is a huge market, wake up media companies! 1 week ago
  • Sorry, Pandora is not available in my country. Hmm... 1 week ago
  • RelevantKnowledge crapware was hanging my Vista system on login, got it from some video cutter tool, wasted 2 hours of my life debugging. 2 weeks ago
  • Created a dummy Twitter account for blogs not on Twitter already. Finally, all my Google Reader feeds are here. Twitterfeed rocks @twfeed. 2 weeks ago
  • Just restored a file with Dropbox, was too simple. Perfect for programming, can easily revert to older versions. 3 weeks ago
  • @scobelizer How do you to follow info not on Twitter? E.g. my friend's blog or Flickr stream? Create fake accounts and use Twitterfeed? 3 weeks ago
  • Just tried @Crashplan at home, still unable to connect. Server down? Not a good sign especially when I'm evaluating and ready to pay. 3 weeks ago
  • Just setup Crashplan, unable to create a login, claims network issues. Would have been interesting to try out. http://crashplan.com 3 weeks ago