{"id":470,"date":"2009-09-22T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=470"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:54:05","slug":"vim_and_puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2009\/09\/22\/vim_and_puppet.php","title":{"rendered":"Vim and Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use vim for almost all my editing needs, till now I often thought I should give using TextMate another try due to the nice <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/masterzen\/puppet-textmate-bundle\">Bundle<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterzen.fr\/\">Masterzen<\/a> made but there&#8217;s just something about desktop editing that puts me off.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been renewing my efforts to better my VIM use and came across the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vim.org\/scripts\/script.php?script_id=2540\">snipMate<\/a> that enables you to do almost the same thing as textmate &#8211; the syntax for the snippets is even roughly the same.<\/p>\n<p>I made a quick snippet file this morning for some common used bits that you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/code\/puppet.snippets\">here<\/a>, see it in action below or <a href=\"http:\/\/screenr.com\/su7\">view the movie better here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"i=13889\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/screenr.com\/Content\/assets\/screenr_0817090731.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/screenr.com\/Content\/assets\/screenr_0817090731.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"i=13889\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Each time you see the input cursor jump between fields in the templates I&#8217;m simply pressing <em>tab<\/em>, <em>shift-tab<\/em> would cycle backward.<\/p>\n<p>There are some nice things here you might not notice, for example editing a file <em>test.pp<\/em> and adding a class it will automatically fill in the class name as <em>test<\/em>.\u00a0 Same for nodes, it&#8217;s really very powerful and the snippets are trivial to write.<\/p>\n<p>I am using the vim syntax file that comes in the puppet tarball and the <em>adaryn<\/em> color scheme that ships with vim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use vim for almost all my editing needs, till now I often thought I should give using TextMate another try due to the nice Bundle that Masterzen made but there&#8217;s just something about desktop editing that puts me off. I&#8217;ve also been renewing my efforts to better my VIM use and came across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}