On Puppet managed systems it might be interesting and sometimes even important to know, if a file is managed by Puppet, because manual changes will be overridden next time Puppet executes.I’m only using vim on my machines and discovered a very nice plugin. It’s called Tangledstrings by Chris Jones and displays a warning message once a file is opened or saved
This script implements transparent editing of gpg encrypted files. The filename must have a ".gpg", ".pgp" or ".asc" suffix. When opening such a file the content is decrypted, when opening a new file the script will ask for the recipients of the encrypted file. The file content will be encrypted to all recipients before it is written. The script turns off viminfo and swapfile to increase security.
I've spent some time recently on setting up my environment to work more productively on writing puppet manifests. This blogpost highlights some of the findings to get me more productive on editing puppet files and modules. Some older information can be fo
Turning Vim into a modern Python IDE
snipMate.vim aims to be an unobtrusive, concise vim script that implements some of TextMate's snippets features in Vim. A snippet is a piece of often-typed text that you can insert into your document using a trigger word followed by a <tab>.
A slightly more sophisticated replacement for less.sh that also supports being set as the PAGER environment variable. Displays man pages, perldocs and python documentation properly.
Formatting based on the latest Puppetlabs Style Guide, Syntax highlighting, Automatic => alignment (when the tabular plugin is also installed), Snippets for builtin types and functions (when the snipmate plugin is also installed)
