Abbreviations are another completion primitive in Vim. Since it’s full auto, it wants to be magical. <Key> presses and scripts can be replayed. Paired with custom completions and output from external tools, it transforms into advanced witchcraft and/or cursed sorcery. In my case, it just expands acronyms.

Here’s Vim editor thesaurus completion. This kind of completion has its various limitations that I might detail later. I mentioned thesauri in passing but my Internet connection is pitiful and writing about editor meta feels a bit bizarre.

More Vim editor meta? Since posting a video of my LaTeX/Vim shenanigans, queries for tips arrive occasionally. Completion and whole line completion are boilerplate hammers. The more buffers and windows loaded, the more “robust”.

The nmap command can enumerate SSL ciphers on the server.

nmap --script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 domain.example

The SSL Labs’ SSL test is similar? In debugging purgatory, there are instances where declarations in a configuration do not translate into reality and it’s not always the implementation, or the server, but sometimes exotic interactions between systems.