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Fix Neocomplcache to Support Perl Complete

I have long been jealous about the great auto-complete feature of Python in Vim. With the wonderful plugin neocomplcache, once you type . after an object, the memeber methods will pop up.

I want this feature for Perl when I type ->. Actually, until today haven't I realized that I already ...

Build Feh from source and install to Home directory

Feh is a lightweight image viewer for Linux. Its source code doesn't ship the Autoconf script and only Makefile. The customization is done by modifying the file config.mk. In my case I would like to install it to my HOME directory. Plus, I have installed the dependency library ...

Install RcppOctave if Octave is in user-defined directory

Even though I have been very busy these days I think I should try to get at least one post published per month. My recent job involved a lot of data analysis and statistical computing. I pushed myself to get familiar with R because some packages from R are indispensable ...

Vim gets slow when editing LaTeX file

Recently I have been working on editing multiple LaTeX files containing many lines and equations. I noticed there was an annoying slowdown when I moved the cursor around. CPU usage jumped to 100% so frequently that I almost lost patience to focus on the writing itself.

After tweaking the Vim ...