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-rw-r--r--software/scheme18
-rw-r--r--software/vim38
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diff --git a/software/debian b/software/debian
index e6b8e49..c21890b 100644
--- a/software/debian
+++ b/software/debian
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ Some gotchas from installing debian a few times:
Then sudo pycentral updatedefault python2.4 python2.5
And change the symlink /usr/bin/python to point to python2.5
- * Make sure to install things like bzip2, unzip, etc
+ * Make sure to install things like bzip2, unzip, less, etc
* ``bash`` by default takes a very long time to initialize because the
auto-completion scripts are loaded multiple times; disable this in
``~/.bashrc``?
+
+ * For building stuff you want build-essential
diff --git a/software/scheme b/software/scheme
index 7b7041b..c64d000 100644
--- a/software/scheme
+++ b/software/scheme
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ See also notes on `The Little Schemer </k/books/littleschemer/>`__.
Scheme Implementations
-----------------------
-
-Very partial list, mostly just the ones which are interesting to me.
+Very partial list, mostly just the ones which are interesting to me.
+Alexey Radul maintains a nice table of R5RS implementation details in various
+packages on his `website <http://web.mit.edu/~axch/www/scheme/choices.html>`__.
MIT/GNU Scheme
The 7.9.0 release (last stable as of 01/01/2009) is not R5RS compatible,
@@ -59,9 +60,20 @@ C-x u Undo
C-y Paste
========= ====================================================================
+Command in ``.edwin`` to set Super-TAB to autocomplete scheme variables::
+
+ (define-key 'Scheme #\s-tab 'scheme-complete-variable)
+
Scope
--------------
-
``set!`` looks up a symbol name and permanently changes the first value it comes
across. ``let`` (and ``letrec``) create a new symbol with the given value.
But wait, you need a ``lambda`` block to make everything work?
+
+Environment/Interpreter Commands
+-----------------------------------
+``(disk-save filename)`` will save a binary microcode image; an existing
+image can be specified with the ``--band`` option at runtime or with
+``(disk-restore filename)`` from within the interpreter. Bands are also called
+worlds.
+
diff --git a/software/vim b/software/vim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..76ffa24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/software/vim
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+============
+It's vim!
+============
+
+Typical .vimrc
+------------------
+Here's what a typical ``.vimrc`` looks like for me::
+
+ if has('syntax') && (&t_Co > 2)
+ syntax on
+ endif
+
+ set history=50
+ set wildmode=list:longest,full
+ set showmode
+ set showcmd
+ set smartcase
+ set shiftwidth=4
+ set tabstop=4
+ set shiftround
+ set expandtab
+ set autoindent
+
+ autocmd BufRead *.py set smartindent cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,try,except, finally,def,class
+
+Commands
+-------------
+I search and replace globally a lot::
+
+ :%s/before/after/g
+
+Tricks
+-------------
+I often want to pull a particular gnarly line or two from another file; here's
+the command I use to grab three lines of context around 'phrase'::
+
+ :r!grep -A 3 'phrase' ../otherfile.txt
+