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items.sjbach.com is a personal blog at items.sjbach.com about programming and productivity. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Configuring vim right”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Vim plugin writing, including its scripting interfaces, and on Common Lisp's iterate macro, including comparisons with loop and how to extend it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Configuring vim right2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-11-10
- /280/extending-the-iterate-macro2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-06
What Hacker News says?
I've been a vim user for something like 6/7 years now and I absolutely love it, but the editor really shows its age when you realize that its internals can only be fully customized through vimscript (i.e. you can script it using Python/Perl/Ruby but none of them offer the same interface and control that vim's own scripting language, see section 2. on http://items.sjbach.com/97/writing-a-vim-plugin ), which is not ex…
Comment linking /97/writing-a-vim-plugin
on “Learn Vimscript the Hard Way”Submitted Configuring vim right as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSorry about how long this is!! This is the culmination of about 1.5 years using VIM as my exclusive text editor for web development. When I started I was using PHP and now I'm using Ruby on Rails. If you have any general questions about VIM, specific questions about my .vimrc, or anything related, ask in the comments and I'll try to answer: set fo=tcqln ic nohls nu sc scs sm tm=200 wim=longest,list nonumber let g:ex…
Comment linking /319/configuring-vim-right
on “Ask HN: What's in your .vimrc file?”Submitted Critiquing Clojure as a story · 60 points
HN discussion"It isn’t widely known that Vim has interfaces into several popular scripting languages: Python, Ruby, Perl, Scheme, and Tcl." https://items.sjbach.com/97/writing-a-vim-plugin
Comment linking /97/writing-a-vim-plugin
on “Show HN: A simple, tiny Vim and kilo-inspired editor”Submitted Extensibility in Vim vs. Emacs as a story · 13 points
HN discussionhttp://items.sjbach.com/211/comparing-loop-and-iterate http://items.sjbach.com/280/extending-the-iterate-macro
Comment linking /280/extending-the-iterate-macro
on “Why we hate Lisp”Submitted Clojure’s new regex syntax as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIterate is pretty sweet. Also, you can extend it by using macros: http://items.sjbach.com/280/extending-the-iterate-macro And iterate has good documentation: http://common-lisp.net/project/iterate/
Comment linking /280/extending-the-iterate-macro
on “Emergency Elisp”Submitted Surveying Emacs Lisp as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cool things about Clojure which haven't gotten much play as a story · 2 points
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