Vim-Fu

Cisco’s DNS Rewrite – My new best friend

jroberts — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:33:24 +0000

DNS Rewriting is a simple and elegant solution that can save you time and [...]

Bulk Adding users to Gmail and notifying them of their new credentials

jroberts — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:12:23 +0000

My company is making a small jump from Google Apps Standard this morning to the Premier service, but because we are taking the opportunity to change the domain name, we are forced to do a migration. This is really not a big deal compared to the mail migrations I have done in the past, in [...]

Great iPhone app for working out regexes.

jroberts — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:30:38 +0000

This is a great little utility to have on your iPhone. It’s called Regexen and it is a tool that allows you to enter some text, and then cook up a regex that will match it. You can then mail it out to your own email account or a co-worker. It also has [...]

Converting from Apache to Nginx

jroberts — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:38:05 +0000

I've decided to migrate Vim-Fu.com (WordPress) from Apache to Nginx for a couple of [...]

A Scalable DNS scheme for Amazon’s EC2 Cloud

jroberts — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:36:06 +0000

We are gearing up for the "next phase" release of our EC2 deployment and I've taken the opportunity to re-think the scheme based on my experiences over the last 8 or so months of using EC2. I have come up with something that is FAR better in my [...]

editing remote files

jroberts — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:25:44 +0000

This is a pretty cool little feature. I am not sure how often it will come into play, but I like it and I thought I would share it.

To edit a file on a remote machine that you have ssh access to, do this:

vim scp://remote_host/filename

Simple as that. Supported protocols are: scp, sftp, ftp and http [...]

using macros in VIM

jroberts — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:55:54 +0000

Repetitive tasks can be annoying and are easily mitigated using the macro functionality in VIM.

For our simple example, let’s count 1 to 10 with each number on a new line. This will make use of the Auto-increment functionality, discussed in a previous post entitled increment/decrement numbers in VIM, which is CTRL-a and yy, which yanks the [...]

editing a bash command from the CLI using VIM

jroberts — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:04:43 +0000

Ever have a very long shell command that when you run you realize has a mistake right in the [...]

selecting and writing out a portion of a file

jroberts — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:34:38 +0000

Selecting and writing out a portion of a file into another one, or acting on it in some other way is a very handy thing to know how to do in VIM. There are many actions that you can perform, which will save you loads of time, if you just know some basics about [...]

commenting out multiple lines in vim

jroberts — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:32:36 +0000

Visual block mode is a great tool when commenting out a section of code, large or small, all at once.

Look at this section of code from a script I am writing. Let’s say I wanted to comment out everything you see.

I start with my cursor on the “%” and enter visual [...]