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Working in a big project, I had the problem that the scripts included lots of files and used a lot of templates that were called programatically, because of that, I was looking for files a lot.

Searching the vim wiki I found a script that is used to find files inside a directory and choose the file you need. I’ve modified it a bit and finally it looks like this:

"Function for finding files
" Find file in current directory and edit it.
function! Find(name)
  let l:list=system("find . -name '".a:name."*[htm|html|php]' | grep -v .svn | perl -ne 'print \"$.\\t$_\"'")
  let l:num=strlen(substitute(l:list, "[^\n]", "", "g"))
  if l:num < 1
    echo "'".a:name."' not found"
    return
  endif
  if l:num != 1
    echo l:list
    let l:input=input("Which ? (CR=nothing)\n")
    if strlen(l:input)==0
      return
    endif
    if strlen(substitute(l:input, "[0-9]", "", "g"))>0
      echo "Not a number"
      return
    endif
    if l:input<1 || l:input>l:num
      echo "Out of range"
      return
    endif
    let l:line=matchstr("\n".l:list, "\n".l:input."\t[^\n]*")
  else
    let l:line=l:list
  endif
  let l:line=substitute(l:line, "^[^\t]*\t./", "", "")
  execute ":e ".l:line
endfunction
command! -nargs=1 Find :call Find("<args>")

The function is used doing something like

:Find <name>

The real thing here is to map a keybiding to search the file where the cursor is standing.. Like this:

:nmap <leader>f "zyiw:exe "Find ".@z.""<CR>

This way, with the keystroke “\f” you start the function searching for the word under cursor. Be aware that the keybinding changes if you modified your leader variable.

I just knew about the :vimgrep command inside vim, it is used to search a pattern in a filetree, us it like:

vimgrep /$.ajax/ **/*.html

then, you can check all the files that resulted of that command with:

:copen

BTW: vim is *awesome*!

As my memory sucks I have an encrypted file that stores passwords. Of course I need a secure way to do that.. what I do is this:

To encrypt:

openssl des3 -salt -in passwords -out passwords.crypt

To decrypt:

openssl des3 -d -salt -in passwords.crypt -out passwords

UPDATE:
I just realized that VIM has a built in way to encrypt and decrypt files that works great.. You must use the -x option

vim -x [filename]

*{ outline: none; }

It get rids of the stupid border around inputs

If you read the previous post, you will understand why this is awesome

:%s/^\(\d\d\)\(.*\)/<li><a href="images\/membranofonos\/\1.jpg">\2<\/a><\/li>

Yesterday I stumbled upon a problem renaming files. I had a really big bunch of files named as [numbers]{abigpileofcharacters}.jpeg/gif. I needed to work with filenames more standarized, something like [numbers].jpeg/gif.

First problem was finding a way to rename those files. I thought of a piped mv command with some sed or something like that, but it got complicated.. so I asked on my favorite IRC channel and a friend told me about a script that comes inside a Debian package when you install XFCE, that script is named prename, it is a modification of an old script named rename. It’s written in perl and its Awesome!

It’s awesome because of this:

perl renamer.pl 's/(\d+).*\.([\w]+)/$1.$2/' *.*

If you dont understand that, go read about Regular expressions. The script renames the files according to the regular expressions using $1 and $2. That’s just awesome.

As the Debian package is not usable in OsX I’ve uploaded to GitHub and BitBucket.