Billy Schmidt billyschmidt

How to use Tim Pope’s Pathogen

I’ll assume you are on Linux or Mac OSX. For Windows, replace ~/.vim/ with $HOME\vimfiles\ and forward slashes with backward slashes.

The idea

Vim plugins can be single scripts or collections of specialized scripts that you are supposed to put in “standard” locations under your ~/.vim/ directory. Syntax scripts go into ~/.vim/syntax/, plugin scripts go into ~/.vim/plugin, documentation goes into ~/.vim/doc/ and so on. That design can lead to a messy config where it quickly becomes hard to manage your plugins.

This is not the place to explain the technicalities behind Pathogen but the basic concept is quite straightforward: each plugin lives in its own directory under ~/.vim/bundle/, where each directory simulates the standard structure of your ~/.vim/ directory.

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	"""Kelly O'Shaughnessy
	Rotate nxn matrix by 90 degrees"""
	def rotate(matrix):
	if matrix is None or len(matrix)<1:
	return
	else:
	if len(matrix)==1:
	return matrix
	else:
	#solution matrix

	# Initialize the scroll
	page = es.search(
	index = 'yourIndex',
	doc_type = 'yourType',
	scroll = '2m',
	search_type = 'scan',
	size = 1000,
	body = {
	# Your query's body
	})

	'''
	Basic tail command implementation
	Usage:

	tail.py filename numlines

	'''

	import sys
	import linecache

	import os

	def head(filename, count=1):
	"""
	This one is fairly trivial to implement but it is here for completeness.
	"""
	with open(filename, 'r') as f:
	lines = [f.readline() for line in xrange(1, count+1)]
	return filter(len, lines)