Vim commands

Python class commands (with vim-pythontextobj):

• >ic to outdent a class
• <ic to indent a class
• cic to change a class
• dic to delete a class
• vic to visually select a class
• yic to yank a class

Paragraph commands:

• >ip to indent the current paragraph
• <ip to outdent the current paragraph
• dip to delete the current paragraph
• yip to yank the current paragraph

Paragraph commands:

• 6J to join six lines

Paragraph commands (visual mode):

• vapJ to join all lines in a paragraph (version of {visual}J)

Line commands:

• Y to yank the current line
• yj to yank two lines (starting with the current line)
• 3yy to yank three lines (starting with the current line)
• 4yy to yank four lines (starting with the current line)

Matchfix commands:

• % to jump between delimiters
• %x``x to delete matching delimiters

Word commands:

• guw to lowercase the current word
• gUw to uppercase the current word

Character commands (current character):

• r to replace the current character
• x to delete the current character
• yl to yank the current character
• ylp to duplicate the current character

Character commands:

• p to paste one character

Delete commands:

• "_d to delete into Vim's "_ black hole register.
• "_dG to black-hole-delete to end of file.
• dt" to delete until (but not including) quotes:
• abjad.label(leaves).color_leaves(color="red")
• dt"
• abjad.label(leaves).color_leaves("red")       

Compiling Vim 8.1 with +python3

Clone the Vim repository on GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git

Change to the source directory, configure and make:

$ cd vim/src

$ ./configure \
   --enable-python3interp \
   --with-features=huge \
   --prefix=$HOME/opt/vim

$ make; make install

Check that +python3 is set:

$ ./vim --version

Link:

$ mkdir -p $HOME/bin

$ cd $HOME/bin

$ ln -s $HOME/opt/vim/bin/vim

Installing and using pdfdiff.py

The pdfdiff.py script is hosted at Oxford:

http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/cas.cremers/misc/pdfdiff.html

The page there gives install instructions.

You'll need the xpdf tools. Prebuilt binaries are available for the three major operating systems:

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

Download xpdfbin-mac-3.04.tar.gz and double click the to untar.

Inside the resulting xpdfbin-mac-3.04 folder there will be no package installer. Instead there are just two different folders that house a collection of binaries: bin32 and bin64. Modern MacBooks are probably 64-bit. The INSTALL file explains how to copy the binary files, man files and example file.

Building Poppler under OS X

Went to the Popper project page:

http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

First erroneously cloned the Git repository; don't do this.

Then clicked to download the archive: poppler-0.26.2.tar.xz.

This was a pain. You can't handle tar.xz archives using any native commands under OS X.

Had to insall the small xz application:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/macpkg/files/XZ/5.0.5/XZ.pkg/download

The link downloads XZ.pkg and installs just by ctrl-clicking the icon and choosing "open" from the context menu.

You can check that the xz command is available with which xz.

Then you're in a position to open the Poppler archive:

   xz -d poppler-0.26.2.tar.xz

The file poppler-0.26.2.tar will result.

You can then double click on poppler-0.26.2.tar or untar from the command line.

The folder poppler-0.26.2 results.

This folder contains a configure file. Which is great because my clone of the Git repository did not contain a configure file.

Change into the poppler-0.26.2 folder.

Then ./configure and in the usual way.

But this fails in a check for FONTCONFIG:

checking for FONTCONFIG... no

configure: error: in `/Users/trevorbaca/Desktop/poppler-0.26.2':

configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old.  Make sure it

is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full

path to pkg-config.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS

and FONTCONFIG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.

See the pkg-config man page for more details.

To get pkg-config, see .

See `config.log' for more details

Which is annoying.

So Poppler hasn't built successfully yet. Documentation left here for later.

Building wxWidgets from source

Installing wxWidgets under OS X involves building from source.

The wxWidgets folks host a wiki with the following call to configure:

../configure --with-osx_cocoa --with-macosx-version-min=10.7 --with-macosx-sdk=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk --prefix="$(pwd)"

I had to change both 10.7 references to 10.8 because I'm running Mountain Lion (10.8). So this worked correctly:

../configure --with-osx_cocoa --with-macosx-version-min=10.7 --with-macosx-sdk=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk --prefix="$(pwd)"

The rest of install was completed with make.

The command was taken from here:

http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Compiling_wxWidgets_using_the_command-line_(Terminal)

Installing autoconf, automake and aclocal under Mountain Lion

Mountain Lion's XCode doesn't include autotools.

Jean-Sebastian Delfino hosts a script that works perfectly under Mountain Lion 10.8.5:

http://jsdelfino.blogspot.com/2012/08/autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-x.html

After executing the script you have to make sure that ~/devtools/autotools-bin/bin (or equivalent) appears in your path.

Removing untracked files in a Git working copy

Use ...

git clean -f -n

... to see which files Git would remove if you actually ran the command.

Then use ...

git clean -f

... to permanently remove the files.