open matching in vim

April 18th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

To open in vim all files matching a regex:

$ grep -l foo ./* | xargs vim -p

Posting from vim

January 15th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

A while ago, I got excited about posting to this blog from vim. Then I upgraded things, got distracted, forgot about it, and it seems now _not to work_

easiest way I can find is to save the text into a new file, then do:


google blogger post --title "Posting from vim" --tags "technology, vim,google,howto" %

markdown + vim

June 20th, 2010 § 0 comments § permalink

Since I’m spectacularly dim, it never occured to me that I can run markdown from within vim. Select your text, run !markdown, and wham! bam! everything is replaced by its technicolor HTML twin.

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