Monthly Archives: December 2007

Linux and Documentation Part I

December 30, 2007 – 8:29 pm

A lot of what throws Linux users off appears to be this idea that the documentation is elusive, unwieldy, and not really tuned for end-users to digest. Our cable modem was down for a while, and I was too lazy to get up from my Linux laptop, so I started going through man pages - [...]

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Helping The User Along

December 30, 2007 – 3:56 pm

A user spends an hour working on a document.  Because he/she is stressed, or under duress, they don’t remember to save their document, and when closing Word, reach the familiar dialog box: Do you want to save the changes to Document1? Still harried, they accidentally click the ‘No’ button, and lose their document. Because the [...]

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My vim Setup For Now

December 30, 2007 – 2:13 pm

I finally have a vim setup I’m happy with.

The sidebar on the left is NERDtree, the tiny buffer on the top is Lookupfile where I use the :LUWalk command to quickly get to files. The Lookupfile’s default search mode is much like Textmate’s Command-T functionality, but requires the use of generating a ctags file or [...]

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