HFCS: effika’s blog

I’ve been using HTML-Kit for years to take care of my site-management needs. It’s very robust and has all kinds of bells and whistles. Of course, I’m not much of a bells-and-whistles kind of girl. I only use a few features of HTML-kit regularly: the Indent/Beautify function which also checks for simple things like orphaned tags (invaluable for fixing up the O. U. Improv! site), the preview function (using both IE and Gecko layout engines), the syntax hi-lighting, and the “Tile Windows Vertically” function when going back and forth between templates/css files and pages-in-editing.

A few months back I finally took a serious look at Vim (thanks Billy!). HTML-Kit was waaay too bloated when I just needed to type up a few paragraphs for an update, and Notepad lacked some features I desired (regexp search and replace). After learning 5 or 6 commands Vim completely overtook Notepad as my “simple” text-editor.

Recently, I received an update for the O.U.I site that was in all-caps. All-caps sucks to read on-line, so it was time to change the case. I tried Word and OpenOffice Writer to no avail, and was about to start re-typing the update. Then I thought, “Hmm, I bet there’s some simple Vim command that will change the case.” A quick googling found my very easy solution (guu), and the day was saved!

And thanks, everyone who commented on Kaylee’s cuteness in the last post! She is indeed an adorable kitty when she’s not trying to kill us in our sleep.

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