jumps and marks in vim

First we will talk about jumps in vim. Very useful for <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/navigation" title="Navigation" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation">navigation and jumping around the vim. The jumps are commands that lets you jump from one location to another location, like {{ or [[ and so on … From the help file of vim

A &#8221;jump&#8221; is one of the following commands: &#8221;&#8217;&#8221;, &#8221;`&#8221;, &#8221;G&#8221;, &#8221;/&#8221;, &#8221;?&#8221;, &#8221;n&#8221;,
&#8221;N&#8221;, &#8221;%&#8221;, &#8221;(&#8221;, &#8221;)&#8221;, &#8221;[[&#8221;, &#8221;]]&#8221;, &#8221;{&#8221;, &#8221;}&#8221;, &#8221;:s&#8221;, &#8221;:tag&#8221;, &#8221;L&#8221;, &#8221;M&#8221;, &#8221;H&#8221; and
the commands that start editing a new file.  If you make the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/cursor" title="Cursor (computers)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_%28computers%29">cursor &#8221;jump&#8221;
with one of these commands, the position of the cursor before the jump is
remembered.  You can return to that position with the &#8221;&#8217;&#8217;&#8221; and &#8221;“&#8221; command,
unless the line containing that position was changed or deleted.

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CLI Color and bash prompt.. some colored fun with prompts in bash

There are two ways to do it, one is with tput command. We will see that some other time, today we will consider the escape sequence way.

First we need to understand the colors as understood by bash. Some time back a fried of mine gave me this little script to find the colors. You can download it <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/03/bash_colors" target="_blank">Script bash colors. Here is the script

#!/bin/bash

T=&#8217;amit agarwal&#8217;   # The test text

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Recovering Deleted Files With lsof

Quick update, found this nice article on how to recover deleted file, if its still open by some process.
<a href="http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3822816">Recovering Deleted Files With lsof

blogtk — Unsupported XML-RPC protocol

Earlier I had talked about this blog client, did I. If not then there is a nice blogging clinet called BloGTK, which can be used directly to post into the blog.

So today I reinstalled it and I was completely at loss with the client being unable to start with the error below:

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py:407: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead
self.publishCheck.set_active(gtk.TRUE)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File &#8221;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py&#8221;, line 1244, in module
blogtk = BloGTK()
File &#8221;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py&#8221;, line 138, in __init__
self.grabConfig()
File &#8221;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py&#8221;, line 426, in grabConfig
self.rpcServer = proxy.get_xmlrpc_server(self.url)
File &#8221;/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/proxy.py&#8221;, line 66, in get_xmlrpc_server
return server(url)
File &#8221;/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py&#8221;, line 1414, in __init__
raise IOError, &#8221;unsupported XML-RPC protocol&#8221;
IOError: unsupported XML-RPC protocol