Windows XP Command Line, Batch Files, and Scripting

For all us command line hobbyists, here's a neat list of shell commands that can help you do a large variety of things on Windows XP. Neat!

Baraha 7.0 released.

My favourite Indic editor Baraha has just moved to version 7.0. I have used version 5 onwards to edit and maintain my marathi blog and other indic stuff like my wikipedia and Wikiquote contributions.

Baraha 7.0 can be downloaded from their download page here.

New features as follows:

• Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Bengali and Oriya scripts added.
• Transliteration of Indic scripts into Latin characters supported. (see here)
• Added new glyphs to Devanagari fonts required for Sanskrit text.
• Corrected the sort order for Tamil script.
• Usage of Baraha Direct utility is improved.
• Added Barahapad utility for editing Indic Unicode text.
• Updated copyright info. Baraha software can be freely used for ANY personal or commericial use.
• other minor improvements and bug fixes.

See also: Blogging in Devnagari (using Baraha)

Note: image courtesy Baraha.com

VLC Media Player v0.8.5 released.

My favourite media player VLC has released a new version. If you are looking for a media player thats no-nonsense, memory efficient and plays almost all the known (and a few unknown) formats - then this one is for you. See the full features list.

I often refer to it as the "swiss-knife" of media players.


Image Courtesy: videolan.org

Tags: mskadu, 2005, VideoLan, VLC, Media Player, ogg, mp3, avi

Vim 7 released

Bram Moolenaar announced the release of Vim 7 on the vim-dev mailing list yesterday. Here's his post on vim-announce

Message 1
From: "Bram Moolenaar" Bram@moolenaar.net
Date: Mon May 8, 2006 2:54am(PDT)
Subject: Vim 7!

Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.0

Vim 7 is ready! After years of development this feature packed editor
is waiting for you.

Since Vim 6.4 many new features have been added. To mention a few:

- Spell checking support for about 50 languages
- Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
- Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
- Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
- Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
- Vim script profiling
- Improved Unicode support
- Highlighting of cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
- Translated manual pages support.
- Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
- Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
- Printing multi-byte text

Once you have installed Vim 7.0 you can find details about the changes
since Vim 6.4 with ":help version7".

As usual, the latest Vim can be downloaded here.

And yes, in case you already havent, do also check out and bookmark Vimdoc.org - the place where the documentation for Vim is maintained. Braham also announced that future Mac versions will be avialable at Macvim.org

Tags: mskadu, 2006, Windows, UNIX, Vi, Vim, Gvim, Vim7, Braham Moolenar, Editor

Article: First look at Vim 7.0

Good news for Vi(m) fans like myself. Vim 7.0 beta has been avialable for some time now. Here's a first impression of what it has to offer.