using paragraph seperator in vi – the easy way

imap aa 80i-io

Just put this in the vimrc or in a vi session with a : in normal mode.

Explanation:

This will map the key ”aa” to the sequence which will add ”-” 80 times in the current line and then go to new line in insert mode. This is quite simple so any changes required should be simple enough to make.

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vim understanding the various modes and using the yanking more efficiently.

We will look at the vim modes today. Sometime back , I was looking at copying a function body. So I was basically looking to copy the lines till matching &#8221;}&#8221;. I found a plugin called <a href="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234" target="_blank">yankring which would allow me to yank the text in various combinations. So I can copy a function by going to the begining of the function and then &#8221;y}&#8221;. That is very simple to understand right? Wrong!!!

Extend Gedit with amazing plugins

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Been busy in writing one script these days. So here&#8217;s something for you to munch in the meanwhile.

Change background in gnome from shell script.

I learnt this just now but this is something I wanted to try for some time. I wanted to know a way to change the background from the shell without actually using the change background GUI option. I always find that option very slow.

So what do you do.. write a shell script

gconftool-2 type string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename &#8221;`pwd`/$1&#8221;

Use this script to change the desktop. Some other time we will delve into why this works. For now you can just run this shell script with the filename and see your Desktop background change. Cool 🙂

Create your own splash screen for gimp

Gimp allows you to set the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/splash_screen" title="Splash screen" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splash_screen">splash screen very easily. All you need to do is copy the image to ~/.gimp-/splashes/. There is <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/betting" title="Betting (poker)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_%28poker%29">no limit on the size or color. You just copy all the images you like to have as splash and one of them would be randomly picked up from the said direcotory for the splash image.