Perl web frameworks

• Mason - Not MVC, and tightly integrated into Apache
• Catalyst - MVC (recommended)
• Plack - PSGI (recommended)
• Dancer - not used
• Mojo
• TemplateToolkit (recommended)

navigation in vim

• Why you should disable your arrow keys
• Efficient Editing With vim

vi keybindings

Summary:

• h - move left
• l - move right
• j - move down
• k - move up
• g, then j or k - move only one screen line (for long lines)
• w - go forward one word
• e - go to end of word
• b - go to beginning of word
• { - jump up to next blank line
• } - jump down to next blank line
• m? - set mark ? (where ? is a lowercase letter a-z)
• '? - jump to mark ? (where ? is a-z) NOTE: This is a single quote mark followed by a lowercase letter

My vim config

Superceded by https://github.com/willsheppard/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc

in ~/.vimrc:

" TABS

" make tabs 4 characters wide

:set tabstop=4

" make > and < keys shift by 4 characters

:set shiftwidth=4

" turn tabs into 4 spaces

:set expandtab

" automatically tab to the right place, after pressing enter                     
:set autoindent

" COLOURS

" less bright colours

:set background=light 

" set colour of comments

:highlight Comment ctermfg=Green

" HIGHLIGHTING
" See also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Fix_syntax_highlighting

" syncronise syntax highlighting properly

:syntax on

autocmd BufEnter * :syntax sync fromstart 

" highlight terms for which you've searched
:set hlsearch


" SCRIPTS
" allow Shift-K to look up stuff
":set keywordprg=/path/to/a/script



" PLUGINS
" For Taglist: http://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/
" Show name of current subroutine

map q :TlistShowTag<Enter>

" Show list of all subroutines

nnoremap <silent> <tab> :TlistToggle<Enter>

" Enable code folding for perl subroutines
:let perl_fold=1
" don't fold the whole package up, just subroutines (type zazO with cursor on the package name to unfold everything)
":set foldlevelstart=1
" don't fold anything (type za while in a subroutine to fold it up)
:set foldlevelstart=99

" EXAMPLE of mapping a keypress to a sequence of other keypresses
" map CTRL-E to end-of-line (while in insert mode)
imap <C-e> <esc>$i<right>

" Also set .vim/ftplugin/perl.vim to display the current Perl subroutine name in the status line



" save local marks a-z for up to 100 files ('100), save global marks A-Z upon exit (f1)
set viminfo='100,f1


" don't clear the screen upon exiting vim
set t_ti= t_te=

" load custom filetypes
:filetype on
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.tt set filetype=html

Insert non-printable characters in vi

• Ctrl-V, then Ctrl-[X]

Where [X] is A-F