General opinion seems to be that vi begins with a lower-case V, and general usage seems to be that proper names that begin with a lower-case letter should continue to do so both in title-case contexts and at the start of sentences.
So shouldn't the name/headline of this site be vi and Vim?
Is there a way to make certain vimrc configuration valid only for files under a defined directory tree? Or alternatively, is there a way to have a .vimrc file in a directory, and make its setting override all $HOME/.vimrc for that directory and subdirectories (and maybe, additional vimrc file in ...
I'd like to nominate @200_success.
I'm too lazy to go into as much detail as he did in his nomination of @Carpetsmoker, but the effort that he put into that post is actually a great example of why he'd be a good moderator.
I've seen his name popping up all over the main site, and the fact t...
I've been watching closely. Oddly, there hasn't been a clear consensus emerging for the 2nd and 3rd choices. I'm assuming that we're choosing three moderators.
Thanks, but I don't think I have the time right now to devote to moderation of another SE site. So I am going to to have to decline. — Josh Petrie26 mins ago
@200_success So that's one person off the 2nd/3rd list.
Thanks for the nomination and for all your support. At this point, I think that the community would benefit more if we let some fresh faces develop their moderating talent. The site should be in good hands with Carpetsmoker, Doorknob, and muru. — 200_success23 secs ago
Speaking of sysadmins, here's a nice one from the "developer turned sysadmin who doesn't really know what he's doing"-department that I encountered last week:
I just lowered the php-fpm process limit from 100 to 10. Problem solved.
Still, not the craziest thing I've seen
There was this one question on SO where this guy was running some hacked Wordpress weblog thingy, and it "kept creating files", so he asked for a cronjob to remove the files every 5 minutes
When some people pointed out this was probably not the best way to solve this, he got rather unfriendly :-/
@Carpetsmoker "The functionality described may be removed in a future version of this volume of POSIX.1-2008. Strictly Conforming POSIX Applications and Strictly Conforming XSI Applications shall not use obsolescent features."
All shells suck. They're all full of legacy nonsense and stupid syntax, and the only one I know that doesn't (fish) is weird
user4704
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Yeah I tried fish for a bit.
user4704
It seemed a little weird. And I recall there being one niggling thing that bugged me about it that I couldn't figure out how to configure so I quit using it. Also it required installation.
user4704
I generally try to use only the shells available by default on any given system.
@FaheemMitha AFAIK, neither Gilles nor I (or any sensible person I know, though that may be down to my definition of sensible ;-) use bash as his interactive shell.
I did look into zsh settings, and even a basic setup looked very very ugly IMHO, it's like all the ugliness of sh-syntax with more zsh-specific ugliness bolted on top
At least csh has a sane syntax ... Too bad the parser stinks :-/
Vim's documentation is overwhelming. How do I find what I'm looking for?
