I have been stuck doing a lot of front-end web work lately and haven’t had a
chance to do much perl coding (I am planning on releasing an Mason based
renderer for Email::MIME::Kit soon though). I’m very impressed
with the power of CSS in modern browsers. The last time I looked at it, browser
incompatibilities really made it difficult to use. It is much better still, I
find most of the work to be trial and error, so I have a couple of tips that
have saved me some time going back and forth…
I do all of my coding in vim and have ton of mappings (maybe I’ll share some in
future). One I really like right now it ,u which saves the current
file then runs my xrefresh
perl script which finds my Firefox
window and refreshes the current page. It is a simple script that is based on
X11::GUITest. It works particularly well when I am using two
monitors and can have the browser on in one of them. Here is the mapping, along
with the ,U mapping which saves all files:
nmap <silent> ,u :w<cr>:! xrefresh 'Gran Paradiso'<cr>
nmap <silent> ,U :wa<cr>:! xrefresh 'Gran Paradiso'<cr>