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Jonathan
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Jonathan's personal blog at technotales.wordpress.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2008, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Like Slime, for Vim”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Jonathan's blog on Vim workflows, including vim-slime for sending code to a REPL, Git diff with vimdiff, and using GNU Screen for demos. HN readers link it for these editor and terminal tips.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
no magic - just tricks
Most-linked posts?
- Like Slime, for Vim7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2008-05-02
- Vim Splits: A Guide to Doing What You Want (2010)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-09
What Hacker News says?
> Git Diff with Vimdiff https://technotales.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/git-diff-with-v...
Comment linking /2009/05/17/git-diff-with-vimdiff/
on “Diff Algorithms”Submitted Vim Splits: A Guide to Doing What You Want (2010) as a story · 60 points
HN discussionSince the blog isn't taking comments, posting it here. > doesn't work very well with is Python, because it preserves whitespace when it moves the code over the REPL. If that's the only issue, it's easy to fix it. All you need to do is to replace multiple new lines with single new line. let s:foo_text = substitute(a:text, '\n\s*\n\+', '\n', 'g') . "\n" Here is my slightly modified slime.vim: http://gist.github.com/58…
Comment linking /2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/
on “Coming Home to Vim”Submitted Vim Splits: A Guide to Doing Exactly What You Want as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI think if you only want to see how wizards do it, you'll have to fully master emacs. As a non-wizard and vim-forever guy, who only occasionally writes Clojure for hobby projects, here's my advice. For a long time I got by with creating a split-screen terminal with 'screen', and then used vim-slime ( https://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-... ). It doesn't have to be split, I just like it that w…
Comment linking /2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/
on “State of Clojure 2016 – Results and Analysis”Submitted Like Slime, for Vim as a story · 43 points
HN discussionI tried using slimv as well some time ago but I never managed to get it working properly. I don't remember exactly what happened but I believe there were some bugs (like the lag you mention) and I couldn't figure out how to properly transfer just the piece of code I wanted to the repl. Plus I didn't want most of the plugins that slimv added (paredit for instance). I ended up using this method http://technotales.word…
Comment linking /2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/
on “The problem with vim”Submitted Like slime for vim as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThe manpage for screen should tell you how to send commands to the screen session (the -X option, I believe). You just need to create a function/binding in Vim that tells screen to create a new 'window' and run that test suite in that 'window.' Screen is basically a terminal multiplexer. This would work a little differently if you were using gVim instead of Vim (from within the same screen session that you're sendin…
Comment linking /2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/
on “Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi)”Submitted Vim splits: A Guide to Doing Exactly What You Want as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI love this hack for hitting C-c C-c in vim and having your current paragraph telegraphed to whatever screen window you want. I imagine it'd work for demos just as well as developing bash scripts. http://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-v...
Comment linking /2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/
on “Using GNU Screen to perform a command line demo”Submitted Book Reading Opportunity Cost as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Screencast: Like Slime for Vim as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Node, JSLint and Vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deps: what am I missing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- tx · 2008-05-02
Submitted Slime-like simple REPL for Vim + Ruby or Python or Lisp as a story · 1 points
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