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thomasmallen | 16 years ago | on: Proj: Simple project tool for Vim

> Is there any way to do this within Proj?

Nope, it's simple by design. Project.vim seems mainly for projects that need to pull in files from all over the place and probably fulfills that goal well. If I need to search the working directory, I'll use ':!grep -RI "term" .' (or vim's grep which is pretty nice).

I say that project.vim stinks because it's awkward and its usage is unclear. Maybe I've never "gotten" it, but I think there are many others like myself who really, really wanted to like project.vim but just couldn't use it.

I have my mind on other goals. One is to add a toggleable split that gives useful version control information by integrating with the VCS plugin.

thomasmallen | 16 years ago | on: Proj: Simple project tool for Vim

Thanks for the feedback. I like the idea of introspecting the directory names...I'll see if I can work that in there.

You have to put quotes because otherwise Vim complains about using undefined symbols (I don't plan on using the command interface in the long run; probably something more like what MiniBufExplorer does, or even FuzzyFileFinder's hack of the completion system). I agree that it's clumsy, but the command interface is limited, and can only accept paths with quotes omitted.

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: How to Pick a Language

I know I signed that as my final post, but I feel the need to assure you that I wouldn't be offended by something so silly.

Sometimes you just get bored with a place and feel like moving on :^)

I think I'll spend less time on sites like these and more playing this fine Buffet clarinet I picked up on Saturday. It's been a while, but my embouchure's returning already.

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: How to Pick a Language

Pick PHP if you want to use Wordpress, phpBB, Drupal, and a wealth of other great open-source web apps.

P.S. Final post; great community here!

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: Sad Day For Microsoft: 5,000 Laid Off, Earnings And Revenues Down

Unlikely. Those Seinfeld ads didn't actually try to sell anything. A bit of overpriced, mild brand reinforcement most likely would not have affected the company's short-term prospects.

By the way, what M$ is doing here is very screwed up. They're laying off the first batch (1400) immediately, but using the remaining 3600 as a threat to make competition cutthroat. I might just quit if I worked there.

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: The frat boy ships out

Yes, incendiary unsourced quotes and all.

Karen Hughes, one of his closest advisers, "rarely read books and distrusted people who did."

Who knows where that came from. Gotta love billion-dollar words thrown in like "homunculi" and "ratiocination" instead of the clearer "cronies" and "reasoning," respectively.

I just can't help but feel that this particular analyst is strongly biased.

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: High Readability for your Terminal.app

I don't know why people are putting this sort of work on GitHub instead of dotfiles. GitHub takes a while to load, and there are two wasted clicks here (the file in question, then "Raw"). At the very least he could have linked directly to the raw file.

I keep my Vim stuff on FreeHg, but that's because we're talking about possibly hundreds of files when you consider the color schemes, doc files, plugins, etc. More importantly, it's awesome to be able to quickly pull in all of my vim stuff onto any machine with Hg and I needed this setup to easily sync between work, the server, and home.

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: Obama makes Bush's record public

Obama may very well have entered this using FCKEditor himself. Evidence: The title:

    <strong>Executive Order -- Presidential Records</strong>
Empty paragraphs and all, this looks like most article content that gets spit out of a CMS. Of course, I have no reason to believe that it was Obama in particular, but you never know, it was his first executive order...

Also, a sign of things to come for lobbyists:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrder-Et...

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: When in doubt, turn to _why

In our daily lives, we strive for quality in what we do. We cook aiming to make delicious food; we build to produce something durable and attractive. When I program, I aim to produce something of high quality: Performant, readable, simple, and reliable.

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything

Yep. See, we were overrun by the PC nuts in the 80s, but there are good parts. In the case of "waitress," I agree with them that the elaboration is unnecessary and pointless. So I value some PC when it delivers precision (but the arguments that certain speech is sexist seems far-fetched; "waitress" is not sexist).

thomasmallen | 17 years ago | on: Why 99% of Entrepreneurs Fail: Because they don't do anything

A word doesn't become proper by virtue of merely being defined...

For what it's worth, my comment was on a PC bent. Nowadays, "waitress," "stewardess," etc. are frowned upon, and your use of "authoress" needlessly draws intention to the distinction. It's a clumsy word as well, which makes it seem that you find this distinction notable enough to decide against the far, far more common "author."

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