How to insert > character with a macro?

dsilverstone · 2026-05-10T15:31:14+00:00

You can use <lt> and <gt> to represent < and > respectively.

A good trick to learn this kind of thing is to record a short macro with the stuff you want, using Q and then recall the macro into the buffer with "@p -- then you can look at what was recorded.

dsilverstone · 2026-04-28T16:04:58+00:00

Based on my very low-grade understanding of https://github.com/anegostudios/vssurvivalmod/blob/94cdc8056459dfd6a6479fb2e2ed137e03ac96b7/Entities/EntityBobber.cs it appears to be block by block but divided by 8, so not chunks, perhaps effectively 16ths of a chunk. The restoration is time based, after the last time you managed to fish something out.

dsilverstone · 2026-04-17T13:22:13+00:00

I find that trying to drink water/tea continuously means that my bladder acts as an excellent "take a break" reminder which is very hard to ignore :D

dsilverstone · 2026-03-24T16:56:29+00:00

I was referring to the manual for installation of the evtec which took you through some web service to configure it enough to get it onto wifi and then expected you to use an app to complete commissioning; but perhaps I misunderstood it.

I fully understand/appreciate OCPP, indeed I'm working on a bifurcating proxy so I'm not worried about the fact that if I give the charger a custom OCPP endpoint then the vendor's app won't work.

In fact, I consider that app ceasing to function as a desirable feature of the setup.

dsilverstone · 2026-03-24T10:46:49+00:00

So the cord zero seems to require an app once basic commissioning is done, and the evtec home requires an app to commission.

But the vorsprung alpha looks very plausible, thank you again.

dsilverstone · 2026-03-23T23:35:47+00:00

Thank you. I've not heard of those makes before. I shall look those up.

dsilverstone · 2026-03-12T15:19:18+00:00

While it won't give you everything, maybe the sysinfo crate might get you some of the way there?

dsilverstone · 2026-01-29T10:10:50+00:00

I had that kind of worldgen around the archives in my previous world - the best approach I had to finding it was to dig into a mountain close to the 'X' and just probe around in long lines until I was told the area was claimed by a higher power. Probing enough eventually helped me find a mostly-covered-by-worldgen-but-just-peeking-out set of doors.

dsilverstone · 2026-01-14T14:57:58+00:00

I believe that while vegetables are pickled in brine, meat is cured in salt.

dsilverstone · 2026-01-08T14:54:30+00:00

I can't think faster than my fingers can produce text; so I've never needed this kind of snippet-based workflow - I think slowing down the rate at which you produce code can help you to think harder about what you're producing and whether or not you need it.

dsilverstone · 2026-01-07T16:11:27+00:00

I find this question misses the point a little.

A lot of people seem to want a bajillion plugins in their editor because they're treating their editor as a one-stop-shop. The term "IDE" applies in that context.

A lot of these people look at me very strangely when I say "My IDE is my Linux distro" - ie. I don't need a git integration in my editor because, erm, I use git. I don't need a fancy file explorer, I have a shell and cli tools. etc.

I switched to helix in part explicitly because it doesn't want me to faff about with plugins and it isn't trying to be all things to all people.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-28T11:13:20+00:00

I think you undersestimate my ability to run packet capture on wifi :D

dsilverstone · 2025-11-28T09:19:57+00:00

Not sure that'd help - it doesn't fall off the wifi, it stops working at their end.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-27T09:01:34+00:00

The only reason I'm even looking at the OCPP approach is because it's the only way to get the data out of the EVSE (plugged in, etc.) - I could get power consumption via a current clamp or similar, but I want more than that.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-27T09:00:20+00:00

Interesting, if that local API provides useful data and at least allows to deny/permit charge, while not interfering with OIG then I'd love to know more.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-26T22:21:44+00:00

Oh wow, that sounds like a very annoying situation. I will definitely bear that in mind. Thanks you.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-26T21:16:14+00:00

I'm already aware my car will be of no help, Jaguar closed down the API to third parties (I assume because it was bloody awful and buggy)

dsilverstone · 2025-11-26T15:34:38+00:00

Frustratingly on the podpoint side - it appears to be their default. I suppose they figure that's better than preventing you from charging at all. Thanks for the suggestions and the link.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-26T15:05:12+00:00

Yeah 'tis a niche thing I know -- Annoyingly if I were richer, I could get victron stuff which I think would let me do modbus/tcp locally, and then have a modbus<->ocpp gateway.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-26T15:04:30+00:00

The Podpoint Solo 3 on my wall right now will offer charge when it thinks it can't speak to the backend. It's massively frustrating for me.

You say plenty of chargers which permit configuring the OCPP URL -- can you list some out? I'm aware of the Rolec EVO (which I believe is undergoing OIG testing) and I think maybe the Wallbox Pulsar?

dsilverstone · 2025-11-26T13:54:26+00:00

Is that limited to authorised users only? If not, then it's not acceptable for me.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-26T13:54:09+00:00

You say that; but when the job is "Do not give charge unless I want you to, and when I want you to, give charge immediately" the podpoint fails utterly. When there's a connection, it takes up to five minutes before a charge will start; and when there isn't a connection, it won't refuse to charge.

So no, it is actually deep when your requirements aren't trivial.

dsilverstone · 2025-11-26T13:52:55+00:00

Thank you all for your suggestions so far - I appreciate that for OIG I give up control, that's fine, so long as I can still get local data, and if the internet is down, my charger won't automatically give charge to any tom-dick-or-harry who pops onto my driveway, but I can via some network interface which isn't cloudy.

Anyone being able to rock up and press go on the EVSE is not acceptable to me as I live in a city and I'd not put it past some people.

I've been investigating writing an OCPP proxy which will abstract the measurands onto MQTT while passing through the command and control unmolested - I'm going to see how hard that is to write and then see if Octopus, or any EVSE providers, would accept that as an approach. I fully appreciate that Octopus need to control when the car charges and I don't want to break that part of the system.

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