Archive for the ‘Editors’ Category

POW: Gobby, the little engine that could! (collaborate)

Its been a very long time since I’ve done the Product of the Week, so I am going to change the name to Product of Whenever. This suits me better.
In July of 2001, I was introduced to a little editing tool many of us now know fondly, the wiki. I was travelling to [...]

Thinking About File Encryption (again)

Some of you might recall my article the other day about vim encryption. It is a very nice way to encrypt the file but has some holes in the process. Having extra files laying around while the encrypted file is open is not good enough, though with enough physical security it could be [...]

March 8, 2007 • Posted in: Editors, Tech, Tools • One Comment

Vim (encryption) Saves the Day – Again

Today, while trying to find a solution which still eludes me for storing passwords in a local file. I was informed about a cool feature of vim, which has been in there since version 5.7, encryption.
My main problem was that I wanted to save all of the non-browser passwords and accounts that [...]

March 2, 2007 • Posted in: Editors, Tech, Tools • 2 Comments

vim’s sweet moves

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time editing books for my company, Guru Labs. Because of this, I’ve come to really appreciate the power of vim, and some of it’s very intuitive functionality. Many of you probably have much more experience with vim than I do, but I’d like to share some [...]

December 22, 2006 • Posted in: Editors, Tech • One Comment