Welcome to cron.weekly issue #78 for Sunday, April 30th, 2017. Lots of good links in this release again, plenty of variation to keep you entertained. Enjoy! News How SSH port became 22 A bit of Unix trivia here, as the original author of the SSH protocol ... (more…)

The * (star) character is used in a couple different motions, in pattern matching, and with netrw for pathname globbing. This is Vim Un-Alphabet, a screencas... (more…)

If you're a vim user, you NEED to be using this! It allows you to switch termina/vim syntax colors on the fly! (more…)

By following the hot keys setup in this article, we can make terminal Vim/Neovim feel just like any native app, or working in an editor like VS Code. You’ll be able to use Vim in iTerm2, Kitty, or Alacritty—or your terminal of choice—while still keeping y... (more…)

about a 1 minute As you already saw in the chapter on Undo/redo, Vim is pretty powerful when it comes to these features. However, there’s one more feature which I didn’t mention, as it takes a bit of configuration. In Vim, like in every other text editor,... (more…)