Productivity on Raveen Kumar

Copy and paste as plain text into gmail on ios

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

When you copy text anywhere in the browser from an ios device, it is a formatted text. To paste is as a plain text do the following.

Paste formatted
Select the just pasted text and in the context menu swipe right and tap on “Share…”
In the Share sheet, tap on “Copy”. This copies as plain text!
Tap still selected text to get the context menu again
In the context menu tap on “Paste” to replace the selected, formatted text with its plain text representation

Reference:

Flying with vim

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

vimtutor :help :help <command> :helpgrep text https://vim-adventures.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi

Why ggVG?

gg - go to first line V - Select Current line and dont exit select G - Go to last line

Because of this:

Vim run commands

Opening more than one file

In vertical split: gvim -O file1 file2

In horizontal split: gvim -o file1 file2

Buffers

:b :ls Add all files in a folder to buffer gvim *

Diff

:windo diffthis gvimdiff file1 file2

Vifm

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:sync

Filter or find files under current directory

:!find -L -name "*.csv" %u | grep "72\|82" | grep si

Go to shell

s

Diff 2 files, between 2 panes

:diff

Change dirs

:cd or :cd ~ or :cd $HOME  " change to home directory.  
:cd - " go to the last visited directory.  
:cd ~/dir  " change directory to ~/dir.  
:cd /curr/dir /other/dir  " change directory of the current pane to /curr/dir and directory of the other pane to /other/dir.
:cd! /dir  " same as :cd /dir /dir.  
:cds 
:cds[!] pattern string " navigate to path obtained by substituting first match in current path. Available flags: i - ignore case, I - don't ignore case
:cds[!]/pattern/string/[flags] " same as above, but with :substitute-like syntax.

Vim

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

You mean emacs?

Plugins

[2022-11-27 Sun] Ctrl-y in insert mode to insert text from above and Ctrl-e to insert from below

file:///home/raveensrk/my_repos/raveenkumar.xyz/Blog/linux_and_programming/vim-ctrl-y-in-insert-mode.mov

[2022-11-27 Sun] Map movement to meta keys

[2022-11-27 Sun] Vim build options

Working with CSV files in Vim

CSV files in vim

<2022-08-20 Sat> Copy pasting from and to system clipboard in Vim

Normal Mode / Visual Mode:

Pasting from system clipboard: "+p Copy to system clipboard: "+y

vim auto complete words from dictionary

Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

<C-x><C-k>

Emacs drag and drop with mouse

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Emacs drag and drop text with mouse Changing Emacs drag-n-drop behavior - YouTube