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Vim Terminology in Latin
Find yourself having trouble conversing about your favorite text editor in Latin? Here’s a list of phrases to help you out (Estne difficile tibi de editorio optimo latine colloqui? Ecce tabella locutionum utendarum):
| Term | Latin Translation |
|---|---|
| Modal editor | Editorium modāle |
| Normal mode | Modus naturālis |
| Insert mode | Modus initiālis |
| Visual mode | Modus visuālis |
| Command-line mode | Modus iubens |
| Buffer | Effigiēs |
| Window | Fenestella |
| Tab page | Pāgina |
| Type in insert mode | In modo initiāle dactylographāre |
| Visually select text | Textum dēsignāre |
| Delete a word | Verbum dēlēre |
| Change a WORD | VERBUM mutāre |
| Yank a sentence | Sententiam exscribere |
| Paste a paragraph | Paragraphum glūtināre |
| Install a plug-in | Adnexum instruere |
| Cursor position | Positio iniciī |
| Error message | Nūntius erroris |
| Home row (of keyboard) | Ōrdō domestica |
| Don’t use the mouse! | Nolī mūsculō uti! |
| Emacs is a great operating system | Emacs systēma internum optimum est |
Hemisu for (Mountain) Lion Terminal
Light and dark variants site by side in Terminal.app
The counterpart to the dichromatic Hemisu color scheme for Vim, Hemisu for OS X (Mountain) Lion’s Terminal.app comes in two versions, dark and light.
Vim Color Scheme: Hemisu
Introducing Hemisu, a color scheme for the command-line editor Vim, that comes in two flavors (dark and light) and nicely complements Peppermint.
The dark and light themes running in MacVim
Features
- Two modes: one optimized for daytime, the other optimized for low light conditions
- Made to work with both GUIs (
gui) and 256-color terminals (cterm) - Provides harmonious colors and styles for all predefined UI elements and syntax groups
Mac OS X Lion Terminal Theme: Peppermint
I do a lot of work in Mac OS X’s Terminal.app, and I’ve spent some time tweaking the colors, font, and other settings to get it just right. The result is Peppermint, a Terminal theme for Lion (and Mountain Lion):
Snapshot Coda Plug-in
I authored a very small plug-in for Coda that will save a copy of an open document with a timestamp appended to the name. The reason being that I constantly find myself making small edits to sites that I don’t maintain myself (which makes putting them under version control impractical), and I want to make a quick backup of a file I’ve downloaded before applying my changes. I realized today that it would be worth my time to automate the process of copying the file and renaming it.
To make a backup of example.txt, open the file in the editor, go to
Plug-ins
>
Make Timestamped Snapshot
or hit Ctrl+Option+Cmd+S, and example_20110412.txt will be created in the same directory. I’ve only included the year, month, and day in the timestamp to suit my usage, but it can be easily modified if need be (just edit the bundled shell script).
Update (02/08/2012): Updated for compatibility with Coda 2.