Best of 2012

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2012. 168 posts.

Tools & Productivity
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Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs

If you’ve moved to Vim from an editor like Notepad++ or TextMate, you’ll be used to working with the idea of tabs in a text editor in a certain way. Specifically, a tab represents an open file; while the tab’s there, you’ve got an open file, as soon as you close it, it goes away. This one-to-one correspondence is…