I was pulling my hair to get my vim setup with YouCompleteMe on my macbook after I upgraded to Yosemite. On Mavericks it was pretty straight forward. The following used to work -

# install xcode and command line tools  
$ xcode-select --install  
# install homebrew  
$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com …

While I was trying to set up my development environment on a vagrant vm, I saw a compiler error while installing the excellent YouCompleteMe vim plugin. Well let me back up a bit..
You install the plugin using Vundle. After the plugin is installed you need to run a script …

I knew vim was powerful, but realized recently that with combined command line tools it is really really powerful!!

Our Oracle production database was having issues at work. As a way to find out the cause, our group was asked to switch our jboss instance to point to a different …

This is an awesome trick I learnt recently. It’s a great trick if you don’t know how many times you need to run your macro. In short it is called a recursive macro :)

The gist is, you first make sure the register you are going to record your …

I have been using vim for the longest time but I know I am not the most efficient and fastest vim user. My interest in vim recently started after I watched a youtube video on how to use vim as a Python IDE. Here is a link to the video …