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The joy of colors

Sunday, 09 November 2008

Ever so often, as I have mentioned before, I lose myself in trying to find new ways of working and doing my daily tasks, one such digression is the topic of editors. I mainly use GNU Emacs for development and other major tasks, for everything else I use vim.

Vim is quick to start, capable, good looking and easy to use, contrary to other vi implementations. (Most notably nvi, which I hate with a passion!) Today I found a neat colorscheme that works well on terminals with a black background. It's called 'advantage' and is available from the Vim Color Scheme Test.

To install it you simply download advantage.vim and copy it to your /usr/share/vim/vim71/colors/ directory. Then you open your current C source in vim and type :colorscheme advantage.

Thank you Shan Leung Maverick Woo! :-)

Posted by Joachim Nilsson at 00:39 in /unix | Permalink

Minix editline v0.2.2

Saturday, 08 November 2008

Oups! It seems I forgot to announce the v0.2.2 release of the Minix editline library. It was made official in Bazaar over a month ago, 2008-10-02, but it was not until today that the tarball was created and uploaded to the FTP.

The most noteworthy in this release is support for command completion with the addition of rl_complete() and rl_list_possib(). Two function pointers that easily can be overloaded by the user. See the examples section of the tree for example usage.

Get it from the usual FTP location:

Posted by Joachim Nilsson at 20:24 in /hacks | Permalink