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jEdit, Cream, Gvim, and vim for Ruby on Rails
jEdit for Ruby on RailsI recently mentioned that I like jEdit for Ruby on Rails. I added the Ruby plugin for jEdit (which can be installed directly through the jEdit plugin manager). There is also a...
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A First Vim Tutorial
An Introduction to Vim.I've started using vim again. I thought I would post some of my vim notes.I generally use vim 50% in the terminal, and now 50% as Cream (UPDATE: After learning more Vim commands...
View ArticleGood CSS Editors for Linux (Ubuntu)
There are many good CSS editors for Linux. Basically, all you really need is a text editor that will perform syntax highlighting on CSS files. Some of the programs below are just simple text editors,...
View ArticleHow to Convert Code to HTML With Vim
If you have a code snippet that you want to convert to HTML for posting on the web, you can use Vim, or one of the Vim derivatives such as gVim or Cream.Just put Vim into normal mode. Generally, that...
View ArticleGetting Started With Vim
I have often wished that I could talk to my text editor. "Editor, delete the text up to the next closing HTML tag. Take this list of 15 words and enclose each line in <li> tags."I've been using...
View ArticleVim Color Schemes / Themes
I found a nice Vim color theme called Wombat.To install the Wombat scheme, download the file from the site above and put it in ~/.vim/colors/. You can then enable it in your ~/.vimrc file with the...
View ArticleVim Syntax Highlighting
If you are working on files with unusual extensions and want to have vim add a certain type of syntax highlighting, you can edit your .vimrc file to recognize new file extensions.read more
View ArticleHow to Use Vim's Spellchecker
Vim 7 has built in spellchecking. There are two easy ways to turn on spellchecking. If you are using Gvim, you can use Tools > Spelling > Spellcheck On:read more
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