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Antonio Ospite, theorist attacks

If you use the Vim editor, sooner or later you run into the concept of text buffers.

Hemm, The irony is delicious, not sure about the ironing, actually.

I was reading a very interesting article by Nemo, inspired by another one about the same matter: automatic spelling correction, when an old idea of mine came out again.

When setting up the git repository for VRM I wanted to preserve the project development history, but I hadn't used any real VCS tool back then, I just used to make timed backups with a scheme like this:

$ ls -1
vrm-0.1.py
vrm-0.1_237.py
vrm-0.2.py
vrm-0.3-beta-2006-03-28.py
vrm-0.3.beta-2006-05-11.py
...

Someone at google must be singing this song in their head, mustn't they?

Some times ago I found this nice article about XML in localisation.

Attached files: 

Original document

Intermediate format, untranslated

Intermediate format, translated

Destination document

When playing with the PHP classes for DOM manipulation I found out that there isn't a method to rename an element in the DOM, well, also someone else came across this thing.

In order to have always the latest version of the XHTML 1.1 Quick Reference by Examples from the git repository included on this site I am using this snippet as content of a Drupal node along with the PHP input format:

Imagine you have a big file, you want to keep only few lines of it and delete everything else quickly, all that in Vim.

Hi, welcome to ao2.it.

Sometimes people ask me why I'm not on Facebook, the old bitter me could say: Because otherwise you couldn't keep asking me this.; but I am trying to be a nice kid lately, so I think there should be a more detailed and polite answer.