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Software notes

Some brief notes on software I use - assorted setup, configuration, and usage tips.

Email (Thunderbird) (Betterbird)

Use Betterbird; it has more features, including the rather important ability to read your mail spool.

Vim

It's likely your system already has a .vimrc file somewhere. To include the system defaults as well as your own config, copy it to ~/.vimrc and add your configs at the end of the file.

Rebinds

For consistency with "D" and "C", "Y" should copy to end of line (by default it does the exact same thing as "yy" - copy entire line). Edit ~/.vimrc and add:
map Y y$

Per-language config

In ~/.vimrc, add your config option and prefix it with au Filetype [LANGUAGE]. For example I have
au Filetype html set shiftwidth=2
which sets indentation to 2 spaces in HTML files.

Note that you can use the :setfiletype / :setf command to change language while a file is open, e.g. :setf python

GNU IceCat (web browser)

I only use this to make sure my website is compatible with it. I haven't worked out how to build it for Void, and binary releases are not provided, so I use it on a VM running GUIX System through QEMU. I suppose I could also try installing GUIX on Void, but I can't be bothered.