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Blast From The Past: January 7, 2020

Tue Jan 7 20:06:13 MST 2020 There has got to be some reason for these thoughts. Whatever thoughts come into my mind, I mean they have to have a reason right? Worry, regret, things I can’t control. Everything else which simply can’t be understood or controlled…things like that. I don’t know what to do with these thoughts. People tell me to simply forget about them. Let them go. Who’s to know how that’s meant to work out. I don’t have a clue. I wish I did. That would be nice, but I don’t. I mean, if life is meant to be simple…a breeze, something we’re meant to accomplish well into our 90s etc, if we live that long. Then aren’t we suppose to be able to do something with it? Aren’t we meant to be able to accomplish something and just be there for each other? No matter what happens? Life comes and goes, it’s not meant to be out there out there, but here we are. We don’t know what happens all the time. We don’t know what goes on when we aren’t listening or aren’t watching. We simply don’t ...

Added some bindings to my vimrc

So, I added the following to my vimrc:

" Change Leader Key to a comma, that '\' is so hard to reach
let mapleader = ","

" Set the maximum width of text to 80 characters
set textwidth=80

" Optional visual indicator for the 80th column
set colorcolumn=80

" Show line numbers
set number

" File type detection, plugins, and smart indentation
filetype plugin indent on

" formatoptions settings:
" t: Auto-wrap text using textwidth
" c: Auto-wrap comments using textwidth
" q: Allow formatting of comments with "gq"
set formatoptions+=tcq

" Tabs and Spaces Setup
set expandtab     " Use spaces instead of tabs
set tabstop=4      " Number of spaces that a tab counts for
set shiftwidth=4   " Number of spaces to use for each step of autoindent
set softtabstop=4  " Number of spaces that a tab counts for while editing

" Enable syntax highlighting
syntax enable

" Always show the status line
set laststatus=2

" Define the format (File path, Modified flag, Type, Line/Col, Percentage)
set statusline=%f\ %m\ %y\ %=%l:%c\ %p%%
set statusline+=\ %{wordcount().words}\ words

" Enable spell check
set spell

" Spell check look and feel
hi clear SpellBad
hi SpellBad cterm=underline ctermfg=red ctermbg=NONE
hi SpellBad gui=undercurl

" ==============================================================================
" KEY MAPPINGS
" ==============================================================================

" Insert date with comment tag in INSERT mode
inoremap <C-d> <C-R>=strftime("# %a %b %d %I:%M:%S %p %Z %Y")<CR>

" Save file with Ctrl+S in INSERT mode
inoremap <C-s> <Esc>:w<CR>a

" Comment out a line of code with //
nnoremap <Leader>/ I// <Esc>

" Uncomment a single line in NORMAL mode
nnoremap <Leader>u :s/^\/\/ //e<CR>

" ==============================================================================
" LANGUAGE SPECIFIC SETTINGS & ABBREVIATIONS
" ==============================================================================

" Java specific rules
augroup java_settings
    autocmd!
    " Turn on C-indenting ONLY for Java files
    autocmd FileType java setlocal cindent
    autocmd FileType java iabbrev <buffer> pvm public static void main(String[] args) {<CR>}<Esc>O
    " Auto-close curly braces and drop to a new line
    autocmd FileType java inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<Esc>O
augroup END

" Perl specific rules
augroup perl_settings
    autocmd!
    " Perl Header Template
    autocmd FileType perl iabbrev <buffer> perlheader #!/usr/bin/perl<CR>use strict;<CR>use warnings;<CR><CR>
    
    " Perl MySQL Connection Template (with safety paste toggle)
    autocmd FileType perl iabbrev <buffer> dbconnect <C-O>:set paste<CR>use DBI;<CR><CR>my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=dbname;host=localhost";<CR>my $user = "username";<CR>my $password = "password";<CR><CR>my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $password, { RaiseError => 1, AutoCommit => 1 })<CR>or die "Connection failed: " . DBI->errstr;<CR><C-O>:set nopaste<CR>
augroup END

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