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I should have known better

I spent a some time configuring the Eventlog-to-Syslog service on my domain controllers, yesterday. A bunch of that time was spent trying to figure out why the service wasn’t able to read the config file I had created. The upshot is that I had installed a 32-bit version of my text editor of choice. When [...]

Posted 08 September 2011 † Geoff § Posts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

VirtualEdit in Vim

I really like vim, and here’s yet another reason. I can transpose columns in a text table, using visual block mode. As a quick example, let’s say I have a file containing usernames and display names. If I want to switch the order of the columns, here are the steps: enable virtualedit: set virtualedit=all move [...]

Posted 10 December 2008 † Geoff § Posts ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,