au BufNewFile,BufRead *.review setf review
Friday, May 28, 2010
Reviewing in vim
Bugzilla's review interface is poor. I find a mild improvement is possible by copying the review text into an editor and reviewing it there. One of things that makes this experience better is syntax highlighting. Here's a modification of vim's diff highlighting script that works with quoted patches. Adding the following to one's .vimrc will get it used for .review files:
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Shouldn't you change the metadata at the top of that file?
I did the copy and paste thing for a long time. Then I finally broke down and installed the It's All Text! extension, even though it's rough. It's one of those extensions that adds a menupopup to the Tools menu, even though there's not really any "primary" UI to show. (Preferences don't qualify.) The editor launcher doesn't take a command-line; it takes a file, which should be executable. Since I'm most used to running Vim from the terminal, my preference would have been gnome-terminal -x vim. Instead, you need to create a wrapper shell script to do this, and point the config there.
I wish somebody would just get around to making an embeddable terminal emulator in Mozilla. I'm looking at you, ActiveState!
How about: http://code.google.com/p/pcmanfx/
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"An extension specifically designed for Telnet/BBS browsing. It let you use telnet:// inside Firefox tabs.
Features
* Entirely written in Javascript. No additional plugin is needed.
* Cross-platform, can be used on all platforms which Firefox supports.
* Seamless integration with Firefox
* Reasonable execution speed
* Good render quality
* Can render one double-byte characters with two different colors
* Actively developed"
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The "canonical" place for that autocommand is in ~/.vim/filetype.vim (on Unix) or $HOME/vimfiles/filetypes.vim (in Vim terminology on Windows). Create the directory if it doesn't exist. If the file itself doesn't exist, create it as follows:
" Autocommands to detect filetypes unknown
" to Vim by default
augroup filetypedetect
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.review setf review
augroup END
This has the advantage that this autocommand will be removed by ":filetype off" and added back by ":filetype on".
As far as terminal emulators/editors go, there's also EmbeddedEditor, but it's up to fx3.0 only and there's a pretty crazy security issue with it that would allow you to execute arbitrary stuff.
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