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A collection of useful facts by Joel Williams. Adelaide denizen. Computer tinkerer. Former terrestrial ecology student of Flinders University. PhD candidate at ANU. Editor for freshmeat.net. Adelaide University Mountain Club member and outdoor enthusiast. Occasional networking go-to guy.

Contact me by email at joel at this domain.

Vim 7 Tips

Like most people, I use mutt and vim for email! Vim 7 added nifty inline spell checking, so I made it automatically turn this option on for mail by doing the following:

 mkdir -p ~/.vim/syntax/after
 echo set spell > ~/.vim/syntax/after/mail.vim

These key bindings make tab switching the same as that of Firefox, at least on my computer where ctrl-tab is eaten by the window manager.

 map <Ctrl-PgUp> tabp
 map <Ctrl-PgDn> tabn

Enable scroll wheel goodness and selection.

 set mouse=a

I almost never use octal and hex, so disable auto-detection of these for the Ctrl-A/Ctrl-X increment and decrement functions.

 set nf=
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