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by adiM 13y ago
> I made a few abortive switches to Vim that didn't last a week because my productivity was too hampered and the environment too extreme & foreign. I started vim by using cream[1], which behaves like a normal editor with menus t
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by adiM 13y ago
One can use Python, Lua, Ruby, and a bunch of other programming languages to write VIM scripts. At least on ArchLinux, the vim binary comes with support enabled for these scripting languages.
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by adiM 13y ago
I use zsh and for this use case I typically use "mkdir foo" followed by "cd $!".
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by adiM 13y ago
Would you care to elaborate why you have curly apostrophes and em-dashes?
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by adiM 13y ago
Could you please add an example to show how to export graphs to SVG, EPS, PDF, etc. (Sorry if the example is included in the documentation, but I could not find it).
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by adiM 13y ago
Any plans to add support for Julia as well. One of the things holding Julia back is a good plotting library.
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by adiM 13y ago
With LuaTeX (the modern version of TeX), such catcode trickery is not needed. LuaTeX provides a hook into the file reader, and you can simply change transform the input as you read it. For an example in ConTeXt, see this answer on Tex.sx:
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by adiM 14y ago
If you are interested in academic articles, why not search on google scholar? It provides much more relevant results.
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by adiM 14y ago
Umm.. vim works fine on all platforms.
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by adiM 14y ago
The syntax for optional argument and the lack of support of named parameters are limitations of LaTeX, not TeX. For example, see ConTeXt, which is a macro package on top of TeX, that has much more consistent syntax and all macros accept nam
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by adiM 14y ago
I guess this is a difference in philosophy. I prefer to use a te t editor for editing all types of text: code, emails, tex markup, HTML markup, etc. Hence, for me, a text editor is better than a word processor. But I do like the convenience
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by adiM 14y ago
Images are useful if you are authoring a math heavy document (and don't want to go back and forth between a previewer and the editor). See http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/img/preview-screenshot.pn... for an example.
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by adiM 14y ago
One part where emacs beats vim is the ability to embed images. Emacs + AucTeX is by far the best editing platform for LaTeX because auctex converts the math snippets into images and displays them in emacs buffer. It is possible to write the
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by adiM 14y ago
> first with the advent of email “conversation” threads Google did not invent email conversations. Most email clients worth their salt could sort email based on thread since at least 1999/2000 (and also before that I only started using
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by adiM 14y ago
Indians started cultivating rice (~ 2000 B.C.) much later than the Chinese (~ 4000 B.C.) [1]. Given the rate at which lactose tolerance spread in Europe, Indians had already developed lactose tolerance by the time they started cultivating r
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by adiM 14y ago
Certainly not all of Asia. In India, from anecdotal evidence, almost all adults are lactose tolerant.
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by adiM 14y ago
I always use a local IMAP client (alpine), so am not really bothered by fastmail's rather basic UI.
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by adiM 14y ago
IMAP has tags (rather keywords), that you can assign to multiple posts. Just because you assign a keyword to an email, doesn't mean that it should be moved to a new folder. Gmail does that, and therefore breaks IMAP.
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by adiM 14y ago
Darn, for a moment I thought that this was a site that encourages people to write with a real pen: fall back in love (PenFM).
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by adiM 14y ago
Gmail's IMAP implementation is really buggy. No distinction between tags and folders, non sorting done at the server level, etc. Frustrated, I also moved to fastmail two years ago; it is slightly expensive, but is standard's compliant and w
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by adiM 14y ago
I was waiting for a Java solution with an AbstractFactory somewhere.
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by adiM 14y ago
How does this compare to existing text formats that generate multiple outputs, in particular pandoc (which supports an extended version of Markdown)?
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by adiM 14y ago
I use alpine and have set w3m as the HTML reader in my mailcap file. w3m also displays images in HTML. Alpine is able to display most HTML emails just fine, but when it fails, I simply press V (which shows different mime parts of the messag
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by adiM 14y ago
I have been using Alpine/Pine for almost 13 years, and agree with most of your concerns. However, some of these can be controlled using the settings. - Full name search in LDAP work correctly. Have you set name, surname, and given name attr
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by adiM 14y ago
Isn't this copied from Haskell? Being a lazy language, Haskell has the advantage that the underscored variable is not even evaluated.
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by adiM 14y ago
Well, vim cannot syntax highlight markdown. Period. There are multiple markdown syntax highlighting plugins, but none of them work most non-trivial markdown features (a paragraph indented by four spaces after a list item is a regular paragr
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by adiM 14y ago
How does it compare with Opera Mini browser?
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Enhancing markdown using GPP(randomdeterminism.wordpress.com)
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by adiM 14y ago
That still leaves around 60 unique binaries. <pre> find /usr/lib/git-core -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | cut -d' ' -f 1 | sort | uniq | wc -l 68 </pre> Comparing from TeX: <pre> pacman -Ql texlive-bin | grep '/usr/bi
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by adiM 14y ago
Please verify your facts before bashing TeX. Firstly, tab completion does not need those binaries. Zsh does similar tab completion for git (which uses 150 binaries) and hg (which uses one binary). Now for TeX, pdfTeX has been around since,

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