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...is a very useful thing. But it can drive me mad. Especially if it is not doing the same thing in different places. I am used to the standard tab completion of Bash, namely it completes as far as it is unique, then stops and shows after another tab (actually, two) a list of options. Vim, in its standard configuration, does something else, it completes to one of the possibles matches. And then every next tab completes to the next option. I guess it does make sense, as showing a list of options is not really that nice. But anyhow, I drives me mad, so here is how to change the behaviour (in your ~/.vimrc) to what I like:

set wildmode=longest,list

After reading a news article on Golem, my browsing experience changed completely. Not only is it way nicer to use Google with a command line interface (CLI), it is also faster. But the real treat is vimperator, a plugin for Firefox (only 3.0, which is standard for Ubuntu 8.04). Takes a bit to get used to, but now I have a cryptic browser. Excellent.

Seriously, this is not that insane as it seems. Dunno whether I will stick with it, but for a few days I'll see how I get along with a decent interface. One stupid thing though: I am missing the digraph feature, one of the fastest ways to have access to most extra characters. A ð is just a ctrl-k d- away, æ gets conjured up with a quick ctrl-k ae, and so on. Nothing is more annoying than not having the special character you would need on the keyboard and then the darn search engine is not intelligent enough to understand that oe might also match ö (ctrl-k o:). And yes, I know that I can mod the key mapping, but that will always be something else on different machines anyways...