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Week 195 Group Rant
bahua
7y

In ancient times, a friend and I made a new website for a golf course, in exchange for free golf whenever we wanted it. We were traveling to Texas for work(we were Linux sysadmins for a defense contractor at the time) and found out that mechanical/logistic issues at the airport in Houston would delay our departure by two hours, but this wasn't until after the plane was fully boarded and had begun to taxi. So we sat on the tarmac at Kansas City Airport for two hours with nothing to do but release that website. We finished some perl hooks to site resources, and pushed the site live. This was on a laptop tethered to a phone with a CDMA data connection, before even EVDO was released.

Even so, it went great! I sshed into the server(running netBSD), swung over the necessary tags, and the site was up.

My workflow today is largely the same, just with git and a more elaborate .vimrc.

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  • 0
    7y
    Awesome times 😃
    About that . vimrc... Can I see yours? I'm having trouble getting mine started because I'm overwhelmed with the possibilities.
  • 0
    7y
    @pipe thank you very much for the well thought-out answer. I started using vim with the vim-tutor and haven't made any changes to my .vimrc yet.
    I'm still using default vim config.
  • 1
    7y
    @Tisila

    Sorry I didn't answer in a reasonable time. I was struggling with what @pipe put perfectly into words. My .vimrc has grown with me. That's the best way to add content to it, in my opinion. Try something and see if you like it.
  • 1
    7y
    BTW, I don't use any plugins. I can't explain it, but it kind of feels like cheating to me. When I see a really cool set of functionality from a specific plugin in someone's config, I think, "I bet I can do that without a plugin!" Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't, but it's really fun.
  • 0
    7y
    @bahua thanks for the suggestion.
    I can see you're a man who likes a good challenge.
    @pipe Don't worry, I'm not installing all the plugins I see. I too believe that knowing how to use Vim is a powerful tool and I'm looking forward to grow with it.
    Last question, how about vim resources, do you both have any go to apart from the documentation?
  • 1
    7y
    @Tisila

    I really enjoy conference talks about vim on YouTube. Even now, after twenty years with vim, these talks always show me something I didn't know.
  • 2
    7y
    @bahua @pipe Many thanks to you both. Looking forward to look up those resources. 🙂
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