How to turn-off a plugin in Vim temporarily?

You can do this if you use a plugin manager like Vundle or Pathogen, which will keep the plugin in its own directory underneath the ~/.vim/bundle/ directory. In that case, just find out the runtimepath of the vimacs plugin with the following command: set runtimepath? Let’s say it’s ~/.vim/bundle/vimacs. Then, put this command in your … Read more

Using Sphinx to write personal websites and blogs

I’ve done it at http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog. The key trick is to add a preprocessor step. I’ve got my blog entries in a weblog/yyyy/mm/dd/ folder structure. A script iterates through that folder structure, creating index.txt files in every directory, listing the sub-items. The normal Sphinx process then renders those index.txt files. I added a custom Sphinx processor … Read more

Anyone found a PowerShell Syntax highlighting or IntelliSense plugin for Visual Studio? [closed]

Update 2013-08-20 Adam Driscoll has recently announced the PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio as successor of his former PowerGUI Visual Studio Extension – see his blog post about The Future of PowerGUI VSX for details, where he acknowledges the drawbacks of the predecessor outlined by Simon Gillbee (see previous update below) and describes how they … Read more

Git (or Hg) plugin for dealing with Microsoft Word and/or OpenOffice files

How about: Save your Word docs in XML. Commit your XML Word files. Diff using an external XML diff tool. For example: $ git difftool -t xmldiff c3d293 498571 Transforming the XML files to have one element per line should make the check-in process run efficiently and also allow the external XML diff tool to … Read more

apply plugin: ‘android’ or apply plugin: ‘com.android.application’

apply plugin: ‘android’ specifies that It’s an Android project but it does not specify Its an Application or Library project. To make life easier you can tell gradle the type of project and indicate which plugin should be used. I recommend to use apply plugin: ‘com.android.application’ if project is an app and apply plugin: ‘com.android.library’ … Read more