So being the book addict that I am I decided recently that I need to review my C knowledge thoroughly - complex declarations and complex pointers were/are a bit hazy. Now this is all well and good if you don't know me, but if you've been to my flat you'd know I have like 9 books on C/Linux programming so really this is farsical(sp?). I put it down to the fact that I really like reading books, I have a poor memory and for whatever reason I am just one of those people who remains piddling round the foot-hills, perfectly happy, rather than trying to climb the mountain. Anyway, got a good few hours of that done and am reasonably happy that I understand more than I thought; though less than I'd like. </P>

Spent more time this evening working on my vim info/article. Worked on how to personalise settings - got the manual info but need to test it all works properly and check for other sources. Not sure what I am going to do about the length though and the style is a bit 'dense'/pedestrian which I'm concerned about. Probably have to brutally cut bits out and try to fluffen it up a bit....enough of the culinary metaphors already! </P>

On the technical front vim has stronger configuration options than I realised or general 'opinion' gives it credit for. The layering of text which is slated for version 6 is a great feature - and one I swear I thought of independantly so was quite surprised when I saw it (I'm sure many a programmer has thought of how useful it would be to be able to toggle seeing comments) and I'm looking forward to it - if you've ever seen how verbose my comments you'd be looking forward to it too ;-) </P>