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    Using MacVim Almost Everywhere in Mac OS X

    MacVim 7.1 snapshot 24 was released on 2008-March-14 and includes built-in [*] support for the ODB Editor Suite protocol. If you activate "External Editor" in the MacVim >Preferences > Integration panel, a menu item named "Edit in MacVim" will appear in the Edit menu of lots of Mac OS X applications, including the apps listed here. This is fantastic and has made Mac OS X much more fun for me. For example, I'm currently editing this blog item in Blogger running in Safari. If I want to mess around with the HTML of this blog item, I can do this: 
    1. Click the Blogger "Edit Html" tab.
    2. From the Safari Edit menu, choose Edit in MacVim.
    3. Use MacVim to edit the HTML and then use the Vim command :wq to write and quit.
    4. The focus returns to the Blogger blog item text box, which now contains the text that MacVim wrote out.
    This makes Blogger blog editing infinitely easier and possibly means that I can stop my search for another blog editing tool. And maybe I'll start blogging more!

    Tip 1: To tell  MacVim that you are editing an HTML file, you can either use the following command within MacVim:
    :set ft=html
    Or put this line in your .vimrc: 
    autocmd BufRead *.safari setfiletype html
    This autocmd works because Safari uses the extension .safari for the name of the temporary file that is read by MacVim.
     
    Tip 2: For more HTML+Vim tips, see the thread HTML editing and tag completion that I started in the vim_mac mailing list.

    [*] In Snapshot 23 and earlier, the ODB Editor could not be activated in the Preferences panel but instead needed to be activated via a complicated sequence of commands.

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    posted by Nancy 21 mars 2008   |   permalink   |   comments (0)   |

     

     
    Safari 3 Pros and Cons

    I'm continuing to dance with lots of web browsers and for the past couple weeks I've had Safari 3 set as my primary browser. Here's what I like about Safari 3.

    Pros
    • stretchable form fields - this is great for editing the del.icio.us Notes field, the Blogger "Edit Html" field (but unfortunately not the Blogger WYSIWYG "Compose" field), and lots of other form fields
    • nice built-in PDF viewer (which I've now set as the default PDF viewer on my system) 
    • built-in RSS reader
    • cross platform -- iPhone, Mac OS X, and MS Windows (but not Linux)
    • can email a web page via File> Mail Contents of This Page
    • can turn off Flash by unchecking Safari> Preferences> Security> Web Content> Enable plug-ins
    • can activate the Debug menu
    • based on WebKit, which is FLOSS (LGPL and BSD licenses)
    • blog (for WebKit)
    • wiki (for WebKit)
    • discussion groups

    And here's what I don't like.

    Cons
    • can't change the built-in search engine from Google
    • can't remove the Google search field from the Toolbar because it is connected to the Address field, which I need
    • can't right-click on an image and choose "View Image" or "Block Images from This Server" or "Properties", all of which I use all the time in SeaMonkey
    • can't easily toggle Flash on and off
    • can't turn off animated gifs
    • can't tell if I've already subscribed to a feed by looking at the address field's blue RSS icon (because it looks the same whether I'm subscribed or unsubscribed)
    • can't initiate a page search with / (forward slash) but instead must use Cmd+F
    • the keyboard shortcuts for cycling through tabs suck because they are 3 keystrokes, Cmd+Shift+] and Cmd+Shift+[
    • no favicons in tabs
    • can't set it up to automatically delete cookies on exit
    • no blog or wiki specifically about Safari
    • can't participate in Safari discussion groups via email, NNTP, or other standard messaging protocol
    For now the Cons outweigh the Pros and I'm no longer using Safari as my default browser. I am, however, going to continue to use it for writing blog posts because I love being able to stretch the Blogger "Edit HTML" field to the size of the browser window -- that was the main thing I liked about using Performancing (aka ScribeFire) for blogging.

    If you have any thoughts or tips about Safari 3, please post a comment.

    See Also: Wikipedia.org: Safari (web browser)

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    posted by Nancy 17 juillet 2007   |   permalink   |   comments (4)   |

     

     

     

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