Wil Tan

Just released version 1.1 of EchIDNA which includes confusable characters detection and bulk punycode conversion tool. It has been 16 months since the last release in April 2005, and I’m glad I finally managed to dedicate some time on it. Head over to http://idn.isc.org/ to download it.

Here’s a shot of it in action:

A BIG THANK YOU to Michael Mills for his generosity! Actually, this entry is way overdue, I received it on the 8th July but have been too lazy to blog it (yes, we can definitely see a trend here.)

Some time ago, I started to use the PayPal’s “Make a donation” feature to accept donations for some of my projects. I did it partly to see if an open source software developer could actually get enough to buy some coffee and pizzas from donations. Well, looks like the answer is a Yes! (US$25 = plenty of 3-in-1 coffee and Domino’s pizzas)

Grab it here: viWord.zip

The ChangeLog:

• ~ command (toggle case in Vim)
• Improved search: case-sensitive matching is default, remembers previous search text when you type / or ?, supports Word’s wildcard searches (not as powerful as UNIX regexp of course, but it’s not too bad really), fixed a bug with changing the search key while a match is highlighted.
• Fixed the Capslock key bug (as reported by Tom Hall)
• Fixed the wierd x bug (deleting a space character when cursor is to the right of a punctuation mark doesn&quotet work)

As usual, bug reports are welcome!
If you like the work and would like to show your support, please consider donating via paypal

Thanks to everyone who have shown support and interests in this little hack of mine. I’ve been using it for quite some time now. Despite some minor bugs still lurking around, I really love it myself. This is one of my few creations that I can actually bear to use

Grab it here: viWord.zip

Update: To make Word use its normal keystrokes (e.g. when you need to let someone else use your computer): Go to Tools -> Customize, click on the "Keyboard..." button, then click on "Reset All...". To get rid of it completely, do the above and remove the viWord.dot file.

The ChangeLog:

• e command.
• c modifier (only cw and cb works for now)
• Changed the behavior of Shift-A to move to the end of paragraph (equiv. to the end of a long unbroken line in vi) instead of just the end of the screen line.
• Fixed (hopefully) the error 5346 that was caused by viWord trying to bind to an existing combo (Ctrl-R) used for “align paragraph to right indent” (who the hell uses that anyway?) viWord first removes that binding and then binds Ctrl-R to the Redo operation (just as VIM does).
• x now copies the character(s) onto the clipboard so you could use xp to swap characters.
• viWord enters normal mode without you having to hit the emulate button or the ESC key when you first start Word.

Just created a trial account on TypePad and started blogging there. Just trying out the features and comparing it with MT. I must say that I’m quite impressed so far! Very extensive features and very responsive too.

We just released the new IDN-OSS plugin for IE (still alpha), featuring a taskbar icon (wheeee!) and on-the-fly enable/disable. Head over to http://idn.isc.org/ to get it!

I’ve been working on IDN-OSS for a few months now. Although we have yet to produce a usable product suitable for the general audience, we have just released an alpha-quality plugin for Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000/XP. There is also a simple IDN conversion tool for Windows.

There is still a lot of work to be done, so I will continue to work on the client for the next couple of weeks to bring it to the masses. Stay tuned!

I am sticking to the “Release early, release often” mantra!

Well, the truth is, I’ve been using it and have been find lots of fault with it so I had to fix it for myself.

ChangeLog:
1. New commands – :q :q! :wq (this one’s for Dean)
2. Goto line using count-G (23G brings you to line 23, as would :23)
3. Delete word in both directions – dw db
4. Delete to end-of-line without getting into insert mode: D
5. Binds all other symbols ([{}]\|;'"?,<.>) so that hitting one of these in normal mode won’t suddenly insert it into the document.
6. Search backwards: ?
7. Fixed some glitches.

Grab it here!

Leave me a comment if you like it, hate it, or doesn’t work for you…

I’ve created a viWord community on Orkut, and spammed the Vim community with an announcement

While creating the orkut community, I quickly whipped up this crappy logo for it

In any case, if you’re on Orkut and would like to join, just search for ‘viWord’ or use this link.

I have made quite significant improvement to the first version of the macro, a lot more usable now. Give it a try again if it didn’t quite work for you.

Grab it here. See the README.txt within for installation instructions.

Changes include:
“/” – find text
“n” – next occurence of the search text
“N” – prev occurence of the search text
“^” – go to beginning of line
“C” – delete to end-of-line
“G” – go to the end of file
“:w” – save current file
“.” – repeat last command
“dd” – delete current line
“s” – substitute (works with count prefix too)
“p” – paste (not exactly Vim’s behavior, only works as Ctrl-v)