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fishruler : Fish text ruler

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created by
Roman Dolgushin
 
script type
utility
 
description
About
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Fishruler allows you to visualize desired amount of the fish text.
It can be useful when you create a new database table, web-interface or
just need some text for testing purposes.


Fish cheatsheet
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For list of most frequently used text sizes see `fishruler-cheatsheet.txt`.
It can be accessible through:

    :h fishruler-cheatsheet.txt

or

    :FishCheatsheet

commands.


Inserting the fish text
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Following command will insert 400 charcters of the lorem ipsum text:

    :Fish 400

You can also insert full lorem ipsum text:

    :Fish


Resources
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The fish cheatsheet (`fishruler-cheatsheet.txt`) sizes are partially based
on the following resources:

* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20958/list-of-standard-lengths-for-database-fields
* http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/254290/GDS%20Catalogue%20Vol%202.pdf
 
install details
* Using pathogen (https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen) or vundle (https://github.com/gmarik/vundle) from https://github.com/rdolgushin/fishruler.vim
* Standard Vim way (http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_05.html#add-plugin)
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
fishruler.zip 1.1 2013-05-22 7.0 Roman Dolgushin Initial upload
ip used for rating: 54.197.64.207

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