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The headline is cheerful, ironic attention-grabbing; the writer acknowledges text editor choice is a preference, then lays out briefly how to set up vim for RoR development.
No offence, but this comment sounds more like a one generated by a bot of some kind.
Poor article in the sense that it does little more than list out the plugins, rather than providing some commentary on how each plugin improves productivity.
I do recommend the articles listed on the Rails wiki's 'Text Editors' page for Vim, though: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/text-editors
(Listed here in case that page is changed: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim, http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/17/vim-follow-up, http://biodegradablegeek.com/2007/12/using-vim-as-a-complete...)
Ugh. Not sure about you, but I think HN should be a IDE/Editor blog post restricted site. There was recently a thread on erlang-general that was almost 100 replies long. It started out as "Is Erlang a Good First Language?"... then slowly dissolved into "IDE Bashing". I had to switch my mailing list options to digest I was getting so many emails each day with personal rants. The thing is, Emacs and Vim are awesome, an…
That's horrible! No one should ever have to use digest mode, especially since it makes the list even worse for everyone else. Maybe you should get a better email client? I know some people that use Gmail as a mailing list client independently from their normal mail.
I hear Emacs is an E-mail client ...
I too use tabstop=2 But `cat` uglifies it, so I added this to ~/.bashrc: alias tab='sed "s/\t/ /g" ' You needn't say "cat myfile | tab"; you can just use it exactly like cat: "tab myfile" (I'm not saying that you'd not instantly realize that - but that I didn't).
unless you prefer tabs, you can add: set expandtab to your .vimrc and then vim will magically insert spaces (according to your tabstop/shiftwidth) instead of real tabs. :retab will turn all tabs into spaces for a file that already has tabs in it.
I too use tabstop=2 But `cat` uglifies it, so I added this to ~/.bashrc: alias tab='sed "s/\t/ /g" ' You needn't say "cat myfile | tab"; you can just use it exactly like cat: "tab myfile" (I'm not saying that you'd not instantly realize that - but that I didn't).
You needn't ever say "cat myfile | ..." period! The shell has stdin redirection built in via '<'
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That's horrible! No one should ever have to use digest mode, especially since it makes the list even worse for everyone else. Maybe you should get a better email client? I know some people that use Gmail as a mailing list client independently from their normal mail.
"Maybe you should get a better email client? " I hear Emacs is an E-mail client ...
I too use tabstop=2 But `cat` uglifies it, so I added this to ~/.bashrc: alias tab='sed "s/\t/ /g" ' You needn't say "cat myfile | tab"; you can just use it exactly like cat: "tab myfile" (I'm not saying that you'd not instantly realize that - but that I didn't).
You needn't ever say "cat myfile | ..." period! The shell has stdin redirection built in via '<'