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This Weekend's Work on Vim

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  1. Installed some useful Vim plugins, such as
  2. Do some custom insert mode keyboard mapping. (automatical completion of brackets)

A Bug in Vim-$\rm \LaTeX$

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It’s a small syntax error, and can be easily fixed with the addition of a space character. I found it from a Google search result. (I’ve forgotten the query string.)

This shows to good things of free and open source software:

  • Find bugs quickly through effective communication between users and developers.
  • Fix bugs quickly through hands-on configuration of source code.

From the Vim plugins on the GitHub, you’ll discover even more good points of FLOSS:

  • Everyone can tune the software to adapt to his/her needs.
  • Everyone can share and contribute their changes.

and more …

The more the FLOSS developers, the better our free software!

Why Vim?

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Searching something like “vim best editor”, “vim vs IDE” Google, you can find too many results, and it’s impossible to finish reading all those articles. Therefore, I selected some and post the link here.

Edit $\rm \LaTeX$ Equations in Vim

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With Vim-$\rm \LaTeX$, it’s possible to edit $\rm \LaTeX$ equations with Vim quickly without making syntax errors. (e.g. undefined control sequence caused by mismatched braces ‘{}’)

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