jumps and marks in vim

2010-07-11 3 min read Linux Vim Tips

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 ”jump” is one of the following commands: ”’”, ”`”, ”G”, ”/”, ”?”, ”n”,
”N”, ”%”, ”(”, ”)”, ”[[”, ”]]”, ”{”, ”}”, ”:s”, ”:tag”, ”L”, ”M”, ”H” 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 ”jump”
with one of these commands, the position of the cursor before the jump is
remembered. You can return to that position with the ”’’” and ”“” command,
unless the line containing that position was changed or deleted.
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Change cursor and couple of other settings in window managers like fluxbox and fvwm (except gnome and KDE)

2010-03-28 2 min read Fedora Linux

First off, get cursor theme from <a href="http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=high&page=0&xcontentmode=36" target="_blank">here. You can download the one of your choice. Now create a directory ”~/.icons” if it does not exist. Extract the file you just downloaded in this directory. [If you are using GNome then you could have dropped the tar file itself in the Desktop properties window and selected the theme from there. I have since the days of RH9 not used KDE and so am not sure how to do this in KDE, sorry guys.]