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12th May 2008 - Link Blog

Python with a modular IDE (Vim). Great tips—I’d use these if I wasn’t still scarred from the time vim encrypted my file instead of saving it because I had caps lock on by mistake.

Posted 12th May 2008 at 7:09 am

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