I use the split screen in vim very in-frequently, so I did not really know how to move from one screen to the other. There is also very little or no documentation that I found on this on the first page of google, so here it is :
press ”ctrl+w and ctrl + w” to change to other window.
If you are not sure how to get the split screen, then you can type help split in vim to get the help on split screen.
Continue reading<a id="aptureLink_F2g9MXMw3t" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi">vi editor is very powerful in the sense that you can use maps, abbreviations and recordings. One such example is when you are trying to write a email or trying to write a paragraph and you want to format it. You can create a mapping like so, in your .exrc or .vimrc and use it to format the paragraph.
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All work and no fun makes Jack dull boy. So lets do something for fun. Here is a one liner I wrote sometime back. The original idea is not mine and I don’t remeber where I got the idea from but it was some other one liner that I was browsing for some oracle query. Anyway here’s the one liner to get lot of jokes in one file.
#!/bin/bash
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for i in `echo 000{0..9} 00{10..99} 0{100..999} {1000..1600}` ; do links -dump http://www.robsjokes.com/$i/index.html | sed ’/Random Joke/,/Next Joke/!d’ | sed ’/^$/,/^$/!d’ » ~/Rob.jokes ; echo ’%’ » ~/Rob.jokes ;echo $i; done
I was testing a program which crashing every now and then. It is very difficult in such scenarios to keep looking for the <a class="zem_slink" title="Core dump" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump">core file or keep checking for the running process. So I wrote this simple script that can check for core file in the particular path and keep running until it finds one. You can hack this script to send a mail once the core is found. This is a very simple script. And this should work on solaris too..
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