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Archive for October 2006

October 11th, 2006

Howto prettify wine

I just found this on the ubuntu forums, it details how to change wine colours to better intergrate with your desktop. No more horrible gray! Hooray!
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October 10th, 2006

Lazarus - it’s nearly delphi

As part of my computer science course we do Delphi which, unfortunately, only runs under windows. Fortunately I stumbled across the lazarus project. And from the site:

Lazarus is the class libraries for Free Pascal that emulate Delphi. Free Pascal is a GPL’ed compiler that runs on Linux, Win32, OS/2, 68K and more. Free Pascal is […]

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October 8th, 2006

Great Vim tips and trick site

I stumbled across this site earlier, enjoy!

vim tips and tricks
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October 6th, 2006

Vim 7 on Ubuntu Dapper

Thanks to the people at Freshnet we can now enjoy Vim 7 by appending the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://www.freshnet.org/debian/ dapper/
Enjoy!
George Bunyan
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October 4th, 2006

Tips and trick for a happy Vim

I stubled across these presentation slides earlier and thought they showed some of vim’s best features, so here they are.
And on a side note,
More vim tricks than you can shake a stick at
Some simple yet essential commands for vim
And of course the best repository for vim information, vim.org

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October 2nd, 2006

Getting started with Vim: The editor of kings

Vim is certainly my editor of choice, but I can still remember the daunting moment I first opened up a document. Luckily there are quick start guides around the internet, and a very simple basic one is found here.
If you are looking for something more indepth then check out this article that gives a slightly […]

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