As you may know, in the editor wars, I come down firmly on the side of vim. Vim is a lean and effective modal editor, contrasted with emacs. One of the features of Vim that I enjoy using (but did not know about until recently!) is modelines. A modeline is a small piece of text [...]
Archive of entries posted on 29th March 2009
awesome window manager
First, some background for the non-technical among you. A window manager is a piece of software that controls the windows on your computer. It will do things like placement, drawing, keybinding, et cetera. If you’re on Windows or Mac OS X, you have a window manager built-in to your operating system and cannot easily change [...]





