Category Archives: Text Editing

A month of Vim (including Ruby, cron and GeekTool)

By Sharpy | Published: December 18, 2009
The general idea Teach myself Vim by using it exclusively for 1 month Write my first (somewhat) useful Ruby script to show me how long I have left (i.e. how long until the month is complete) Use GeekTool to display the regularly-updated results (via cron) on my desktop But why? I need to learn Vim, [...]
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Changing SmartyPants’ default behavour in TextMate

By Sharpy | Published: September 29, 2009
I recently mentioned that I am currently trialling TextMate, as a possible alternative to Bare Bones Software’s eminently capable BBEdit. Here’s one of the issues I initially had with Markdown in Textmate, and how I solved it.
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Another text editor?

By Sharpy | Published: September 29, 2009
I’ve been a BBEdit user for around 6 months now, and I can tell you that I am very happy with it. There are probably many who would say my love of text editors and plain text is a little crazy, or at least odd. I’d probably agree with them. It must be an insatiable [...]
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