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Google on Steroids or vi for search engines – Yubnub

salubrium — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:17:20 +0000

Seems I am a bit slow to the party on Yubnub – I guess I kind of see it like a cross between the unix command line and the vi of search engines – it has modes, commands and even split screens:

For example: ls australia gives you all the yubnub commands that include Australia.

Here’s some of my favourites:

gaus – Google.com.au Australia localised search – pages from Australiagau
ebayau – Ebay Australia search
auspc – Australian Postcode search
shopbot – Shopbot search (Australia’s equivalent of pricewatch.com)
seek – Search Australia’s #1 Jobsite
seekit – As above but specifically for IT
ypau – Search Australian Yellowpages
wpau – Search Australian Whitepages
tvoz – Australian TV guide

Some other commands I use often:

whois – Whois lookup for a domain or IP
slg – Search Windows Live and Google in a split screen
pycook – Searches python cookbook
kodpy – Searches python snippets on Koders.com
py – Searches python module documentation
tiny – Creates a tiny url
gim

– Search google images
gvid – Google video search
gl – Google linux search
en2sp – English to Spanish translator
spanish – Spanish to English translator
wiki – Wikipedia (english) search
gmt – Local time in Location

Of course it also covers many that google has already:

calc, define etc.

Anyway, I am loving it.

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Django, VIM and SnippetsEmu on TTYShare

salubrium — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:27:43 +0000

I remember watching the first screencasts of Ruby on Rails and seeing class structures appear as the author was typing and it was almost like “fill in the blanks” – then I found out it was Textmate, then I found it was a Mac only thing.. that left me out – anyways (Nacho libre spanish accent), who cares I am a systems admin right?

Yes, I still trudged around in my daily grind jealous of the textmate crowd and waiting for something similar… then e-texteditor appeared for Windows and Scribus appeared for Linux – the Textmate equivalents for each respective OS.

I have now used them both and I find them too slow – I had been using Notepad++ & Gedit which are both quite fast.

I have been spending more and more time with vim ever since I read this great introduction to what it really can do. So today, I was looking for some Django + VIM goodness, which led me to this from the Django Site, which led me to this (emulate Textmate’s snippet expansion), which led me to this:

All are great links on how to use vim with textmate style snippets for Django. I imagine a wxpython one probably isn’t too far away either. I recently switched to using Gvim on Windows in my continued search for finding tools that I can use wherever I am. So, I haven’t set snippetsEmu up yet but I will report back when I do.

It also answered another question I had about recording tty input – that site can be found here

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Vim – Toggle between vertical and horizontal window layout

salubrium — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:55:35 +0000

I keep forgetting how to do this – Note to self. Make a

How to change from a horizontal list to a vertical list of windows, and vice versa:

—————————
horizontal list of windows
to vertical list of windows
—————————
    W|W|W
to
    W
    W
    W

:windo wincmd K

—————————-
vertical list of windows
to horizonal list of windows
—————————-
    W
    W
    W
to
    W|W|W

:windo wincmd H

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Vim != usability plus a bit of Unix humour

salubrium — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:41:25 +0000

I came across this link today..the title of it says -15 Years of Vi + 5 years of Vim and still learning

maybe it’s my sick sense of humour but I like it plus it’s a great vim resource I need to keep track of.

The question is, is it a usability issue or is it just that it’s so powerful and so many features that it’s an endless learning curve?

On the topic, there’s a very funny book from 1997 called “The Unix haters handbook” I came across while visiting a local TAFE library with a friend who needed some books. The link takes you to Wikipedia where you can download a copy in PDF format. Some of the issues have been addressed these days but some still exist.

It covers some of *nixes great, scary anomalies – I am sure we all have our favourites.

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