Time Saving Vim Movement Tips

I must admit, even though I’ve been learning how to use Emacs, I’m still learning new tricks for Vim.
When I browse through the Vim help documents, I _always_ learn something new.
Today I will show you some time saving tips for moving around in Vim.
Basic
w – move forward by a word
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Configuring the default prompt (PS1)

I use the terminal every day and I have spent a lot of time customising its configuration, particularly the default prompt, to my liking.
Today, I will show you how to customise your default prompt, or PS1.  Before I show you my spartan configuration, let me explain.  I am a minimalist, so I do not see [...]

Adding additional email accounts to your email setup

Upon hearing that my college offers email access through its POP and SMTP servers, I immediately set out to integrate it into my email setup.
Today I will show you how.
Note: I use Mutt to read my email, getmail to retrieve my mail, procmail to filter my mail, and msmtp to send my mail.  This tutorial [...]

Setting up Mutt

Mutt is an extremely fast and flexible text-based mail user agent with local maildir, POP3, and IMAP support.  It is my default mail client by choice.  Today, I will show you my Mutt configuration; perhaps it’ll help you to setup Mutt as well.
The diagram to the left (created with ) shows my ~/.mutt hierarchy.  I’ll [...]

Making Diagrams with Xy-pic

Recently, I upgraded my installation from teTeX to TeX Live.  As I was reviewing the available packages, I noticed , a set of macros for creating diagrams and graphs.  I was immediately intrigued and I started reading the relatively short manual.
Today, I will show you a few of the things can do.
1. First, [...]

Changing The Default X Cursor

Although it took me ages to find out how to change the default X cursor the solution is simple.
1. Install the icon/cursor theme using your default package manager (or extract it to /usr/share/icons)
2. List the contents of your /usr/share/icons directory

~ %  ls /usr/share/icons [truncated output]

Chameleon-Anthracite-Large/    Chameleon-Anthracite-Small/ 
HighContrastLargePrint/         LowContrastLargePrint/  gnome/

3. Copy the name of the cursor theme [...]

My Desktop – The Terminal

This will be the final post covering my desktop.
If you look in the bottom left corner of the screenshot, you will see my terminal, rxvt-unicode.
For the most part, I’m a cli person.  I prefer the terminal because of it’s speed.
In the terminal, you can see me running irssi (an irc client) within screen, a detachable [...]