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Sat, 17 Jan 2009
So, it took awhile, but I finally figured out how to get my older version of vim to display color in program files and twitvim. I simply googled the question of "Vim not displaying colors" and I got this suggestion from Bram Moolenaar and the Vim manual itself and the first line that says that it all starts with this:
syntax enable
And it all worked on a perl script. So, I added a line in my .vimrc and now I finally have color when I run twitvim.
Another nice.
2009 Jan 17 [/eeepc] permanent link
I was getting tired of GoogleReader because of probably how much it did. Yes, it did all the things that anyone would want and yet, I felt overburdened by how it crowed my little eeePC screen. And, because I do a lot of my work at home on the eeePC, it made sense to find something on the commandline.
After struggling to get the opml file imported into snownews (actually, a few simple file with just the links), I was happy to weed through all the old feeds and. But, to my big surprise, I found a feature that made me very happy: a command to show all new headlines.
Nice.
Even though it isn't a real RiverOfNews view, still, I got a reading experience that I was looking for.
2009 Jan 17 [/eeepc] permanent link
So after getting an annoying message with some error with CUPS that kept me from running apline, I decided to do the Clean Install on the ol' eeepc. And, as before, the directions and the process of doing this is quite easy and well-documented.
So, here is what I did to make the eeePC run with the stuff I wanted.
- First, I did the usual things like adding the StartMenu button in Easy mode and then added the packages to activate the Advanced Mode as found in the eeeUser forums.
- Next, I installed a few programs that I use alot: vimtwit (a script for vim), snownews (RSS reader from the commandline), and curl (a most useful utility).
- Lastly, my bigger challenge of the day: Installing Alpine and then, configuring Apline for Gmail. These two sites made it clear and soon I was running Apline and changing the color scheme to make stuff go well.
A few notes: For some reason, twitvim seems to install a weird naming of twitvim into the plugins directory. This will show up when you install the script using
sudo vim twitvim.vba
You have to follow the error message and change the twitvim plugin to just twitvim.vba.
Another issue was with snownew's utility opml2snow which never did work properly for me. So, I just ran the script through perl:
perl opml2snow google.xml > urls
The renamed "google.xml" was the opml export from Settings in GoogleReader. I just grew tired of how much GReader showed and how difficult it was to actually read on the eeePC.
So, on that front, I'm happily zooming along with my refreshed eeePC and the CLI stuff to make things easier and reducing the GUI clutter.
2009 Jan 17 [/eeepc] permanent link
