Clément Joly cljoly

This is a list of custom pseudo-text objects for Vim.

Note the use of "pseudo", here. Conceptually, text object are "special" motions but there is no proper mechanism dedicated to creating text objects, specifically. We are left with the generic mechanism succinctly described under the easy-to-miss :help omap-info.

Writing one's own pseudo-text objects and motions is a great way to extend Vim without perverting its nature ;-).

My Vim-related gists.

Redirect the output of a Vim or external command into a scratch buffer

Usage (any shell)

Show the full output of command :hi in a scratch buffer:

:Redir hi

Show the full output of command :!ls -al in a scratch buffer:

Achieving warp speed with Rust

Vim: pushing built-in features beyond their limits

The situation

Searching can be an efficient way to navigate the current buffer.

The first search commands we learn are usually / and ?. These are seriously cool, especially with the incsearch option enabled which lets us keep typing to refine our search pattern. / and ? really shine when all we want is to jump to something we already have our eyeballs on but they are not fit for every situation:

when we want to search something that's not directly there, those two commands can make us lose context very quickly,
when we need to compare the matches.

$ ./githubapi-get.sh $GITHUBTOKEN /users/mbohun/repos

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 04:30:29 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 155683
Status: 200 OK

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require 'openssl'

	BLOCK_SIZE = 1024*1024 # 1M
	CIPHER_BLOCK_SIZE = 128
	loop do
	n = 0

	cipher = OpenSSL::Cipher::AES.new CIPHER_BLOCK_SIZE, :CBC
	cipher.encrypt

	/**
	* USB HID Keyboard scan codes as per USB spec 1.11
	* plus some additional codes
	*
	* Created by MightyPork, 2016
	* Public domain
	*
	* Adapted from:
	* https://source.android.com/devices/input/keyboard-devices.html
	*/

	#!/bin/bash

	# settings
	# Login information of freenom.com
	freenom_email="main@address"
	freenom_passwd="pswd"
	# Open DNS management page in your browser.
	# URL vs settings:
	# https://my.freenom.com/clientarea.php?managedns={freenom_domain_name}&domainid={freenom_domain_id}
	freenom_domain_name="domain.name"

	import sys
	import markdown
	import yaml
	import os
	from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader

	with open(sys.argv[2], 'r') as f:
	content = yaml.safe_load(f.read())

	for k in content:

	(* note that in order to preserve certain order
	and also show the conciseness of the implementation,
	no tail-recursive is used *)
	let ins_all_positions x l =
	let rec aux prev acc = function
	\| [] -> (prev @ [x]) :: acc \|> List.rev
	\| hd::tl as l -> aux (prev @ [hd]) ((prev @ [x] @ l) :: acc) tl
	in
	aux [] [] l