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Vim 7 is Incompatible with the Vimspell Plugin

On my Cygwin environment on Win XP, Vim 7 appears to run fine with one exception: the vimspell.vim plugin. It apepars that Vimspell conflicts with the new built-in spell check functionality in Vim 7. The symptom of this is that one starts to type and a massive amount of doubled or [...]

Outlook to Remind (out2rem) Converter Script v0.0.1

Update: I have fixed some stuff (time format and placement of AT keyword) and have posted v0.0.2 at the link below.
Please find here a short Perl script to dump out your Microsoft Outlook appointments in Remind format.
This should be useful to those of you who, like me, are tracking [...]

Vim 7.0 Delights and Amazes with Beautified Auto-completion

Randall Lucas 2006-06-21
Vim, the text editor extraordinaire, came out with version 7.0 last month. At some point, unwittingly, I had updated my work computer — Cygwin under Windows XP — using the Cygwin setup.exe file, not expecting any major version number changes. Hence, I didn’t even realize that Vim 7 [...]