If you open multiple files in vim with command line option. Then the only way to move between the files is “:n” and “:N”. There is a easier way to do this. Just add mappings for this in vimrc. Here is what you can use.
map :N map :n
And if you want to make sure that you move to the prev or next file after saving the file, then you modifyt the mapping like this:
Continue readingTab completion is something which is missing in the sqlplus and if you have lot of tables with long names or lot of columns then it is sufficiently difficult to type them 🙂
Here is a solution for this problem. Download and install gqlplus. gqlplus is a replcement for sqlplus which supports completion for commands/tablenames and column names. Quite useful.
Lot of times, you would like to get the complete string in hex or ascii format and if you are one of them then this is something that will be helpful for you 🙂
Example output:
lp-amita[d=~/bin]> ./ascii aamit
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String – aamit, Length – 5
If you have more applications running on your system then your system can handle them then you know what I mean when I say that the Music Players take a lot of CPU. Otherwise harmless, but when you are doing too many things, then lot of times you would feel that probably stopping the Music player might help. But then Linux is all about alternatives. So, there is a command line player called mpg123, which does not use so much CPU. But what about playlist 🙂
Continue readingLets start with installing colorgcc :
sudo yum install colorgcc
Now once that is done, you will need to ensure that the call to g++, gcc and others that you want to use, you will need to create a link in the “~/bin” directory, like so:
for i in g++ gcc c++ cc
do
ln -s $(which colorgcc) ~/bin/$i
done
The one liner above will create the links for colorgcc as **** your favourite compiler in your homedir. Don’t forget to add the bin diretory to your PATH variable:
Continue readingCVS and SVN directories are something that really cause lot of un-necessary nuisance. So, simple solution just ignore them 🙂
export FIGNORE=CVS:~:.o:.svn bind 'set match-hidden-files off'
If you have done a new installation of Ubuntu or Fedora, then yuou know you have to search all kind of blogs to find out what all to install. So, here is a easier way to do that. Just run this script, it will install some applications which are mostly a “MUST” for all the installations. And the list of applications that are installed are :
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