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Finally after a long wait Vim 7 was launched on May 8, 2006. (Announcement) The latest version boasts of many cool additions and improvements. The best one being the new tabbed interface and in built spell check. I installed the 7+ MB installations on my PC as soon as I could get my hands on it. Let us say that now I love vim7 more than its previous version. Tabs - long due overhaul With desktop/taskbar space becoming a precious commodity, tabbed interface was bound to come to Vim. Though it took some time to come. To enable tab support you need to start vim with -p argument. After that things are cool. Working with tabs is relatively simple. Its as easy as using split. Use tabnew - to open new tab tabf filename - to open a file in a new tab Ctrl + PgUp, Ctrl+PgDn - Browse between tabs That’s it, there are many more options check the help files, but these will get you started. There is nothing against this feature, except if the default behavior of a file opening in a new vim instance ...

We guys at office are pretty lazy at doing whatever we are asked to do, at least most of us. So the other day this friend of mine was presented with a baffling problem. He had to download around 50 RFC's from net for his upcoming project. Now I would be more worried about reading those 50 documents but he thought that getting each one of them individually from Internet was tough. This guy wanted a solution wherein he could sleep on his desk and all the documents would come automatically to his folder. So here is a perl script I wrote to help him out. This script downloads RFC's and places them in current folder. This script can be used to download RFC's in batch from command line. Neat? Dont know how much sleep he got, coz it worked pretty fast :) Since this is my first perl script, it might be a little messy. Download the Script from CPAN

Lets start this blog with a technical flavor, I spotted these interesting languages on net today, - Jython These days anything that starts with 'J' is associated with Java, and this is also true for Jython. It’s a pure Java implementation of Python language. Seems to me that Java is becoming more and more 'geeky' (the way C-guys would put it). Rush, check it out on http://www.jython.org. And yes it’s a seamless integration. I will try some more complicated scenarios and report if anything is a miss. - Groovy This doesn’t start with 'J', but who is stopping it from being the most talked about scripting language for Java. Checkout http://groovy.codehaus.org/ - Naunidh Singh Chadha