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Problem:
At times when I’m coding a lot, especially when moving multiple lines at once and doing a bit of code rearranging, the content of the clipboard gets lost (for instance the very part I was trying to cut and paste elsewhere).
Solution:
It took me some time to reproduce it. Now I know I was just careless – when selecting the lines to be erased (most of the time whitespaces) by “Shift-Arrowing”, once in a while I forget to depress the Shift button soon enough. Then deleting the lines gets combined with the old alternative Windows shortcut for cutting content into the clipboard (Shift+Delete). This way the yet to be pasted lines get replaced by their whitespace counterparts – and that’s the impression of losing clipboard contents. Knowing that, I can avoid it by being more careful, but I don’t like it. Unfortunately, having searched for a way to disable the old-style shortcuts, I still can’t find a once forever fix. I thought about writing a tiny override intercepting this kind of messages, but for the time being I’m still waiting for someone to come up with a more elegant fix. And hey, it’s not that painful either way.
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Problem:
Installing Simple Tags (1.5.7) on WordPress with Gengo (2.5.3) results in a classic localization problem:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in [...]/wp-includes/classes.php on line 38
Solution:
Open [...]/wp-content/plugins/simple-tags/2.5/simple-tags.client.php and find in SimpleTags() function:
// Localization
$locale = get_locale();
if ( !empty( $locale ) ) {
$mofile = str_replace('/2.5', '', $this->info['install_dir'])
.'/languages/simpletags-'.$locale.'.mo';
load_textdomain('simpletags', $mofile);
}Remove this part and place it in a separate function (just before add_action(’plugins_loaded’, ’st_init’);) like this:
function locale_init() {
global $simple_tags;
// Localization
$locale = get_locale();
if ( !empty( $locale ) ) {
$mofile = str_replace('/2.5', '', $simple_tags->info['install_dir']).
'/languages/simpletags-'.$locale.'.mo';
load_textdomain('simpletags', $mofile);
}
}After add_action(’plugins_loaded’, ’st_init’); add this line:
add_action('init', 'locale_init');This way the localization part gets postponed till Gengo establishes all the needed stuff. Use at your own risk – not thoroughly tested yet.
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Updating heavily modified installations of phpBB, WordPress etc. can always be a pain. That’s why most of the time I postpone it till the guilt of running a more than year old version becomes too fierce to resist.
Once in a while, however, the moment finally comes when I have to do this unpleasant task. This time my installations were so customized, that trying to merge all the changes without a decent versioning tool was almost impossible. I didn’t want to set up a fully blown SVN server, so I looked for some decent Windows diff tool, which could also handle recursive directory comparisons.
Having tested some of the open-source tools available, I must admit I really liked WinMerge.
What’s so nice about it?
- allows visual differencing and merging
- handles directories without a hassle
- quite decently laid-out
- sufficiently good editor for quick fixes
- provides a nice visual on the structure of differences (the vertical pane on the left)
- plus some other nice features (and hey, it’s GPL)
Latest version can be obtained from: http://winmerge.org/
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