http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:56:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en :vs <filename>   Open a file in vertical split window:sp <filename>   Open a file in horizontal split windowCtrl + ww             Switch between windows (in rotation)Ctrl + wj               Switch to split window on the bottom Ctrl + wk              Switch to split window on the topCtrl + wh              Switch to split window ... http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2011/07/vim-tips-of-the-day-moving-and-working-with-split-windows/ At times I found that I needed to edit a text and auto-wrap doesn't work automatically. So with this tip you can select the text you want to wrap, and Vim will wrap it for you. First, you need to set the text width size of your preference. I personally ... http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2011/03/vim-tips-of-the-day-format-a-text-block-to-wrap-at-specified-width/ Tips of the day: courtesy of commandlinefu Save a file in VIM with root permission without re-opening the file: :w !sudo tee % To do this silently, just pipe it to null like so: :w !sudo tee % > /dev/null http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2011/03/vim-tips/ I ran a system-upgrade on my Arch linux about 2 weeks ago and not until recently when I was using Vim heavily that I realized I lost my copy-paste support between vim instances on different terminal. I knew I solved this problem before but I just couldn't remember how. I finally ... http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2010/07/xterm-clipboard-support-on-vim-under-arch/ This guide helped me removing a file and its associated history from my git repo. http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2010/04/completely-remove-a-file-from-a-git-repo/ Friendster - One of the biggest tech flop since the dot-com bubble burst, a lesson to learn. http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2010/03/how-to-kill-a-great-idea/ I've been looking to improve my creativity lately when I stumbled upon this article on my RSS feeds: http://softwarecreation.org/2010/how-to-become-an-expert-creativity/ I recently had an interview and the interviewer mentioned that I was lacking on creativity which he said is essential to a software developer, and then it hit me. I knew that it ... http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2010/03/a-good-article-on-how-to-become-a-creative-software-developer-or-in-general/ I like my default engine to be InnoDB because it's fully transactional and supports foreign key references. However, the default engine in MySQL is MyISAM. There are several ways to change the default storage engine: Add default-storage-engine = innodb to your /etc/mysql/my.cnf under mysqld server section The default storage engine can be specified ... http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2010/01/change-default-storage-engine-in-mysql/ Don't want search engine like Google to include your site in the search results? Create a file called "robots.txt" on your root HTML directory, the path where your main site's URL belongs: http://www.yoursite.com/ This is normally located in www directory or public_html. In this file, add these lines: [bash light="true"] User-agent: * Disallow: / [/bash] "Disallow" property indicates ... http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2010/01/removing-your-site-from-search-engine-crawler/ I'm sharing my config files on my Arch linux, which include settings for: vim bash X11 awesome window manager You can clone them from here. http://www.edwinjaury.com/blog/2010/01/my-config-files-are-now-up-in-github/