Git Rebase and Vim

When collaborating with Git, I find the git fetch, git rebase pattern suits me. I like the cleaner history. Sometimes I'll switch to cherry-pick for applying specific changes for safe deployments.

Popular Dotfile Options

I loves a bit of dotfile spelunkin’:

I downloaded 155 .vimrc files from the net (mostly from dotfiles.org and github.com), and wrote a little script which counts the number of times an option has been set. Since most options come in normal- and shortcut form, I…

Vim: Do Repeat Yourself

Do yourself a favour: learn how and what you can repeat in Vim. I’m tired of people looking at me like I’m a wizard when I make an edit and repeat it a bunch of times with .. This happens a lot with document types that are naturally repetitive -- HTML for example.

Easier Undo Traversal

After making a lot of speculative changes in a file which didn’t work out, I find myself undoing and redoing changes in quick succession. It’s easy to get lost in the undo tree, and Vim doesn’t have any built-in features for easily seeing what each change in :undolist looks like.