VIM - Search to end of word

This will leave your cursor at the end of the searched phrase:
/search phrase/e

VIM - format lines to certain width

First,
:set textwidth=80 (or :set tw=80)
Then,

gqq	Format a single line
{Visual}gq	Format visual selection. (ctrl+v to get to visual mode then use hjkl to navigate)

For more help,
:help gq

Compile Pidgin for Ubuntu 7.04

Download source: http://www.pidgin.im/download/
Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install gettext libglib2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxml2-dev
For MSN and GoogleTalk:
sudo apt-get install libnss-dev libnspr-dev
Compile:
./configure
make
sudo make install
make install clean

Mouse gestures

What is a mouse gesture?

They can probably be explained better with an example:
Say you wanted to scroll down on a webpage using your mouse. Normally, you would point your mouse cursor to a scroll bar and clicking on it. Using mouse gestures, you would click and hold on to the right mouse button, move the mouse cursor down a little bit, and then let go of the button.

What are the advantages of mouse gestures?

First off, you don't need to point to any user interface element; thus, mouse gestures save time by minimizing mouse movement.
Most mouse gesture programs allow you to customize what your mouse gestures do. For example, if you did not want the down gestures to scroll down, you can change it to do something else such as changing tabs.

How do I add mouse gestures?

For Windows: StrokeIt
For Firefox: All-in-One Gestures
Other: wikipedia entry

Java - APIs & Documentation

http://java.sun.com/javase/reference/api.jsp

Excel - Custom page numbering

• View → Header and Footer...
  
• "Custom Header..." button
  
• Type these into any one of the sections:
  
  

  Input	Result for page 1
  &[Page]+5&	6
  -&[Page]+5-	-6-
  [&[Page]+5]	[6]
  (&[Page]+5)	(6)

  
  

VIM - minibufexpl

Script: minibufexpl.vim

"MINIBUFEXPLORER Stuff (Enter "\mbe" minus quotes quickly to bring it up)
""Commands:
" Ctrl-PgDown - goto next buffer
" Ctrl-PgUp - goto prev buffer
" \-Backspace-= - toggle minibufexplorer
"let g:miniBufExplMaxSize = 3 "allow up to 3 lines of buffers
let g:miniBufExplModSelTarget=1
"map mbo :MiniBufExplorer
noremap :bn
inoremap :bn
cnoremap :bn
noremap :bp
inoremap :bp
cnoremap :bp
noremap = :TMiniBufExplorer
noremap u :UMiniBufExplorer

set hid "Hide abandoned buffers in order to not loose undo history

KDE - Default browser

$ kcontrol
KDE Components → Default Applications → Web Browser
Under Default Component, choose "In the following browser"
Type in: firefox (or your browser of choice)



Then go to KDE Components → File Associations.
Go to Text → html.
Click Firefox and press the Move Up button.

LINUX/UNIX - inputrc options

Add this to your ~/.inputrc to

# get default system bindings
$include /etc/inputrc

# ignore case on tab complete
set completion-ignore-case On

# prefer visual bell
set prefer-visible-bell

Perl - Find and replace all

Find cpp and hpp recursively from the current directory then append those files onto the perl command, which substitutes "old" for "new" in those files while creating .bak backups.

find . -name "*.[ch]pp" -type f | xargs perl –i.bak –p –e 's/old/new/g;'

or non recursive:

perl -pi -w -e 's/search/replace/g;' *.php

-e means execute the following line of code.
-i means edit in-place
-w write warnings
-p loop

VIM - Multiple highlighted searches

Script link
:Search <pattern1>
:Search <pattern2>
:SearchReset

redhat - rpm

Install

rpm -i softwarename(s)

Erase

rpm -e softwarename(s)

Query

rpm -q softwarename

rpm documentation

KDE - Umbrello

I tried out Umbrello for KDE. Seems to work better than MagicDraw at reverse engineering C++ code. It's free. Crashed on a couple of the files I tried though.

Firefox - Reduce RAM when minimized

Move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, taking up less memory. And there is no noticeable difference in speed when you restore Firefox.

• Go to about:config
• Right-click anywhere → New &rarr Boolean
• config.trim_on_minimize
• Set to TRUE
• Restart Firefox for these settings to take effect

From: 15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever on lifehack.org

C - Static Keyword

Usage	Effect
inside a function	remains even after the function call is long gone
modify a global variable	private to a certain file
modify a function	making those functions visible only to the file itself

KDE - Enable mouse gestures

Run kcontrol
Regional & Accessibility → Input Actions
Gestures tab
Unclick Disable mouse gestues global
Change Mouse button to secondary button (right mouse button)

Open up Konqueror
Hold on to right-mouse button, move left, release
It should have navigated back a page

VIM - Recursively set project path

Put this in your .vimrc

set path=$PWD/**

Visual Studio 2005 Express

Download: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/

Using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition with the Microsoft Platform SDK

Cygwin/X - Install 100 dpi fonts

If your fonts look too small, try installing the 100dpi fonts in Cygwin's setup. Under X11, select

xorg-x11-f100: Cygwin/X 100 dpi fonts

In your C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat, near the bottom of the file, append "-dpi 100" to this line:

%RUN% XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error

UNIX/Linux - xhost access

To make your X server available to everyone:

xhost +

You can add this to your .bashrc