Posts tagged "vim"

• New Vim 8 on Debian 9 Stretch has buggy Mouse/Paste/Syntax handling

  2018/06/17 — alex — dedian9 vim CLI linux

  The new Vim 8 on Debian tries again to appeal to the 95% of the people (the noobs) and adds features the are annoying to professionals. When these new features are buggy it's even worse. Problem: vim 8 on debian 9 has some annoying default settings for vim paste uses a vim internal clipboard instead the system clipb...

• Autosave for VIM

  2016/10/11 — alex — autosave vi vim CLI linux

  I believe that it's a good idea that vi does not auto save during editing. Think of config files or src files that should never be in an inconsistent state. The programmer or sysadmin should decide when he wants to save data. But sometime auto save is handy, while typing lists like todo lists or outlines etc. Every ...