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Re: Vimpterator Improvements

Gary S — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:46:05 -0000

I've just started using vimperator and came across similar problems (especially since keyboard shortcuts are becoming increasingly prominent on the web). I realise your post was a long time ago but here's my workaround which doesn't require the use of "FeedSomeKeys". Hopefully it will be of use to someone searching for the same.

:autocmd LocationChange .* js modes.passAllKeys=false
:autocmd LocationChange mail\\.google\\.com js modes.passAllKeys=true
:autocmd LocationChange google\\.com/calendar js modes.passAllKeys=true
:autocmd LocationChange twitter\\.com js modes.passAllKeys=true
:mkvimperatorrc!

It checks for changes in tab name (LocationChange).
The first line re-enables vimperator by default if you switch tabs or open a new tab.
The next few lines are examples of sites where I want vimperator to be disabled on loading.
The last line saves everything to your rc file. This will append/overwrite your existing settings!

If you need to delete a site you should match it like this:

:autocmd! LocationChange mail\\.google\\.com

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

j_random_hacker — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:22:38 -0000

for f in config/*; do ln -vs "$f" "${f#config/my}"; done

takes care of "my" prefixes, and as a minor further benefit avoids changing the current directory.

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

Jason — Tue, 17 May 2011 02:28:15 -0000

I do something similar, and it's important to remember that this is just the first stage, as it were. Once you have this, you can add a line for each dot file that will make sure the software is installed, like the following:

package { 'emacs':
ensure => installed,
}
Or you can make sure the directory structure is the way you want it, or something has the correct permissions, or your elisp is compiled, or make sure an application is started on log in, etc.

It gives you a single place to define how you want part of your machine to look, not what needs to be done to get there, which turns out to be very useful.

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

chen — Tue, 17 May 2011 02:24:33 -0000

The whole system is too complicated. Why not make those dot files portable on different machine.

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

gmarik — Tue, 17 May 2011 00:05:07 -0000

Actually all you need is git http://gmarik.info/blog/2010/0...

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

jaxelson — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:20:13 -0000

Well it's not fully dependent on puppet, although that is a downside to this approach. I can always make the symlinks manually. Or if I really wanted to I could make a script to parse the puppet configuration file...

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

Roger Pate — Mon, 16 May 2011 18:49:34 -0000

cd config; for f in *; do ln -vs config/$f ../.$f; done

If you use a different naming scheme, just apply it above. Your "my" prefix on files complicates things; if you just save them as "bashrc" instead of "my.bashrc" it can be this simple.

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

Joe Van Dyk — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:44:15 -0000

If you had problems with existing links, just remove it first before re-creating it.

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

James Logsdon — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:30:13 -0000

I use https://gist.github.com/975295

Should work with just sh (even though it uses bash) and works on any Linux or BSD variant.

Re: Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

greg — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:03:50 -0000

I don't understand... You've made each of your machines now dependent on this configuration management software, which is a pretty bloaty way to do something really simple.

Rather than wasting half a day getting familiar with Puppet, why didn't you write a simple, portable {shell,python,ruby,lisp,whatever} function to do a readlink(1) comparison on a dotfile and its intended target, and update the link if they are not the same?

Re: My New Project: An Amino Acid Database

Jlonghidev — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:30:45 -0000

Database... check, community participation... Seems like a well developed idea though.

Re: Vimpterator Improvements

jaxelson — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:46:43 -0000

Hey Hastarin, I just tried that and it still doesn't work. However, the same thing without the backslash works perfectly fine on gmail.

Re: Vimpterator Improvements

Hastarin — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:34:30 -0000

I'm glad the post was of help. Did you try escaping the * with a backslash for the * *a, etc?

Ie use \* \*a \*n \*r \*u