It helps to think of &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt; in vim the same way you think of &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt; in a shell - you want to stop whatever you were doing ASAP and get control back. So in vim, if you&#39;re using &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt; to break out of insert mode, vim isn&#39;t going to bother checking if you just wrote part of an abbreviation, and it isn&#39;t going to run the fancy auto commands your plugins have set up for every time you leave insert mode, it&#39;s just going to dump you back in normal mode as soon as it can. If you&#39;re not using abbreviations or autocmds, then you&#39;re not going to notice this difference.

I&#39;d like to stretch 6 nav items evenly across a 900px container, with an even amount of white space between.  For instance...

    ---| 900px Container |---
    
    ---| HOME    ABOUT    BASIC SERVICES    SPECIALTY SERVICES    OUR STAFF    CONTACT US |---

Currently, the best method I can find to do this is the following:

    nav ul {
      width: 900px; 
      margin: 0 auto;
    }
    
    nav li {
      line-height: 87px;
      float: left;
      text-align: center;
      width: 150px;
    }

The PROBLEM with this is two fold.  First of all, it doesn&#39;t truly justify it, but rather spreads the li tags evenly throughout the ul tag.. creating uneven white-space between smaller menu items like &quot;HOME&quot; or &quot;ABOUT&quot; and larger ones like &quot;BASIC SERVICES&quot;.

The second problem is that the layout breaks if a nav item is larger than 150px, which SPECIALTY SERVICES is - even though there is more than enough space for the whole nav.

Can anyone solve this for me?  I&#39;ve been scouring the web for solutions, and they all seem to come up short.  CSS / HTML only if possible...

Thanks!

UPDATE (7/29/13): Using table-cell is the best modern way to implement this layout.  See felix&#39;s answer below.  The `table cell` property [works on 94% of browsers][1] currently.  You&#39;ll have to do something about IE7 and below, but otherwise should be ok.

UPDATE (7/30/13): Unfortunately, there is a webkit bug that impacts this if you&#39;re combining this layout with Media Queries.  For now you&#39;ll have to avoid changing the &#39;display&#39; property.  [See Webkit Bug.][2]

UPDATE (7/25/14): There is a better solution to this below now involving text-align: justify.
Using this is simpler and you&#39;ll avoid the Webkit bug.

  [1]: http://caniuse.com/#search=table-cell
  [2]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53166

How to stretch a fixed number of horizontal navigation items evenly and fully across a specified container

I need to test if our system can perform N requests per second.
Technically, it&#39;s 2 requests to one API, 2 requests to another, and 6 requests to third one.
But the important thing that they should happen simultaneously - so 10 requests per second.
So, in JMeter I&#39;ve created three Thread Groups, first defines number of threads 1, and ramp-up time 0.
Second thread group is the same, and third thread group defines number of threads 6 and ramp-up time 0.
But that doesn&#39;t really guarantee it&#39;s going to run them *per second*
How do I emulate that? And how do I see the results -- if it was able to perform or wasn&#39;t?

Thanks! 

Testing with JMeter: how to run N requests per second

What&#39;s the difference between &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;[&lt;/kbd&gt;? The documents contain the following that I can find:

&lt;pre&gt;&amp;lt;Esc&amp;gt; or CTRL-[ End insert or Replace mode, go back to Normal mode.  Finish
                abbreviation.           
                Note: If your &amp;lt;Esc&amp;gt; key is hard to hit on your keyboard, train
                yourself to use CTRL-[.&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;CTRL-C          Quit insert mode, go back to Normal mode.  Do not check for
                abbreviations.  Does not trigger the |InsertLeave| autocommand
                event.&lt;/pre&gt;

&lt;pre&gt;CTRL-C                  Interrupt current (search) command.  Use CTRL-Break on
                        MS-DOS |dos-CTRL-Break|.
                        In Normal mode, any pending command is aborted.&lt;/pre&gt;

It seems there is some disagreement to what exactly the commands do. 

Does &lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;C&lt;/kbd&gt; not also leave Replace mode, and how do abbreviations relate to pending commands?

What&#39;s the difference between Ctrl+C and Ctrl+[?

What's the difference between <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>C</kbd> and <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>[</kbd>? The documents contain the following that I can find:
<pre>&#x3C;Esc> or CTRL-[ End insert or Replace mode, go back to Normal mode. Finish
abbreviation. 
Note: If your &#x3C;Esc> key is hard to hit on your keyboard, train
yourself to use CTRL-[.</pre>
<pre>CTRL-C Quit insert mode, go back to Normal mode. Do not check for
abbreviations. Does not trigger the |InsertLeave| autocommand
event.</pre>
<pre>CTRL-C Interrupt current (search) command. Use CTRL-Break on
MS-DOS |dos-CTRL-Break|.
In Normal mode, any pending command is aborted.</pre>
It seems there is some disagreement to what exactly the commands do.
Does <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>C</kbd> not also leave Replace mode, and how do abbreviations relate to pending commands?

Is it possible in (g)Vim to move the cursor to its previous position (while in normal mode)? Something to cycle back and forth in the list of previous cursor positions would be ideal. But also just to switch to the last location would suffice (something like `cd -` in bash with directories).

Here&#39;s a little demonstration:

    line |1| &lt;- cursor position
    line 2
    line 3
    line 4

And suppose I did `2j`, here&#39;s how it is now:

    line 1
    line 2
    line |3| &lt;- cursor position
    line 4

Now I&#39;d like to press something (other than `2k` obviously) to move back to the first position and possibly to previous positions.

Vim: Move cursor to its last position

Is there a way of repeating a character while in Vim&#39;s insert mode?  For example, say I would like to insert 80 dashes, in something like emacs I would type:

&lt;kbd&gt;Ctrl&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;U&lt;/kbd&gt; &amp;nbsp; &lt;kbd&gt;8&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;0&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;-&lt;/kbd&gt;

The only way I know how to do it in VIM is to exit normal mode for the repeat argument, then go back into insert mode to type the dash, then exit to insert the actual dashes, AND then go back into insert mode to carry on typing.  The sequence is a really long:

&lt;kbd&gt;Esc&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;8&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;0&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;a&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;-&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;Esc&lt;/kbd&gt; &lt;kbd&gt;a&lt;/kbd&gt;

It would be nice not to switch in and out of modes.


Repeating characters in VIM insert mode

How can I make [NERDTree][1] show files that begin with an `.` (period)?

I have a file named `.hgignore` in a project directory. If I browse to that directory using NERDTree, the file is not displayed within the tree.

I am using gvim on Windows.


  [1]: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree

How can I show hidden files (starting with period) in NERDTree?

NERDTreeToggle always makes it show up on the left side. I&#39;d like to make it show up on the right. Is it possible to do that?

How to make NERDTree always open on the right side?

In Vim&#39;s normal mode:

 * &lt;kbd&gt;e&lt;/kbd&gt; goes to the end of the next word
 * &lt;kbd&gt;w&lt;/kbd&gt; goes to the beginning of the next word
 * &lt;kbd&gt;b&lt;/kbd&gt; goes to the beginning of the previous word

How do you move the cursor to the *end* of the *previous* word?

In Vim/Vi, how do you move the cursor to the end of the previous word?

How would I have multiple $or operations? So far I&#39;ve tried the following but it silently ignores the 2nd $or. 

    {
      $or: [{a: 2}, {a: 3}], 
      $or: [{b: 5}, {b: 4}]
    }

I assume this is because I&#39;m using two identical keys. Is there any way around this?


MongoDB - Multiple $or operations

SQL keys, MUL vs PRI vs UNI

I would like to print a specific Python dictionary key:

```
mydic = {}
mydic[&#39;key_name&#39;] = &#39;value_name&#39;
```
    
Now I can check if `mydic.has_key(&#39;key_name&#39;)`, but what I would like to do is print the name of the key `&#39;key_name&#39;`. Of course I could use `mydic.items()`, but I don&#39;t want **all** the keys listed, merely one specific key. For instance I&#39;d expect something like this (in pseudo-code):

```
print &quot;the key name is&quot;, mydic[&#39;key_name&#39;].name_the_key(), &quot;and its value is&quot;, mydic[&#39;key_name&#39;]
```

Is there any `name_the_key()` method to print a key name?


----------


**Edit:**
OK, thanks a lot guys for your reactions! :) I realise my question is not well formulated and trivial. I just got confused because I realised `&#39;key_name&#39;` and `mydic[&#39;key_name&#39;]` are two different things and I thought it would be incorrect to print the `&#39;key_name&#39;` out of the dictionary context. But indeed I can simply use the `&#39;key_name&#39;` to refer to the key! :)



How to print a dictionary&#39;s key?

How can I get the **highest** `key/index` in an array with [tag:PHP]? I know how to do it for the values.

E.g.: from this array I would like to get `10` as an `integer` value:

```php
$arr = array(1 =&gt; &quot;A&quot;, 10 =&gt; &quot;B&quot;, 5 =&gt; &quot;C&quot;);
```

I know how I could code it but I was asking myself if there is a function for this as well.

Search for highest key/index in an array

I need a way to get a dictionary value if its key exists, or simply return `None`, if it does not.

However, Python raises a `KeyError` exception if you search for a key that does not exist. I know that I can check for the key, but I am looking for something more explicit. Is there a way to just return `None` if the key does not exist?

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What's the difference between Ctrl+C and Ctrl+[?

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