On vim vs Emacs

I often hear the proponents of vim and emacs discussing which is better, usually pitting emacs’ extensibility against vi’s archaic yet arguably effective and tendon-friendly scheme of editing modes.

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Part-way to an emacs git-svn mode

Interacting with git from within emacs is a pleasure, thanks to the official git-mode and Leah Neukirchen’s fantastic gitsum mode. Here are some convenient bindings for running git-svn from emacs.

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Generate an HTML index of your ruby gem rdocs

Rubygems is kind enough to generate RDoc for installed gems, but the directories move as the gem versions evolve, and it’s inconvenient to keep browsing for them. This tool produces a useful HTML index with direct links to the RDocs for all the gems installed on your system.

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