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Emacs comes configured with a command called "send-region-to-shell" that will take the current region and send it to a python interpreter. It makes for a great development experience that I haven't seen replicated with other tools and I'm not sure why there's not a bigger interest in it.
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Let me augment that with this: I would love to donate to a project that uses ${INSERT_TERMINAL_TEXT_EDITOR} and turns it into a general IDE. I'm talking the full shebang. * Autocomplete/Autoimporting (Static Analysis backed by compiler output) * Formatting * Linting * Fast or able to run over a slow SSH connection. * Default error resolutions (if test() throws an exception generate a try { }) * Global refactoring * T…
I have almost all of this in both emacs and vim and it only took me 5 years to get it just right.
I keep seeing tmux mentioned recently. Can someone eli5 what it does and why it's useful?
tmux is like structured LSD, opening terminals to the Universe in unlimited instances and recursions of Sessions and Windows and Panes, and Windows and Panes, Panes, Panes ... Panes ... Multiple realities of Sessions can be started, persisted, detached, reattached, and can exist on your local laptop, another machine on your LAN, or school or corporate network, or the Space Station or Mars, all spanned by your one min…
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tmux is like structured LSD, opening terminals to the Universe in unlimited instances and recursions of Sessions and Windows and Panes, and Windows and Panes, Panes, Panes ... Panes ... Multiple realities of Sessions can be started, persisted, detached, reattached, and can exist on your local laptop, another machine on your LAN, or school or corporate network, or the Space Station or Mars, all spanned by your one min…
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I keep seeing tmux mentioned recently. Can someone eli5 what it does and why it's useful?
tmux is a terminal multiplexer - if you have ever used the `screen` command you already know what it is. I use a macbook pro with iterm2, and I prefer to use a terminal multiplexer instead of tabs or the native screen split of iterm2. If you ssh remote boxes a lot, it is very useful because you will not lose your session in case of an occasional disconnection.
The one thing I'd love to see, as a vim user and a scientist, is something like Matlab/RStudio/Spyder where you can explore variables that exist within a session. Maybe it could hook up to an ipython session and you could display it in a separate terminal and send commands with vim-slime to be updated in real time. For the most part, when I need this, I revert to Rodeo (since it has vim bindings like RStudio's), but…
Yesterday I've downloaded VSCode and https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode (seriously, look at the GIFs in this repo!) for first time and I had autocompletion (with IntelliSense and documentation lookup), refactoring and code define jumping for Python code out of the box working within 10 minutes in a VirtualEnv. VSCode + one plugin (all opensource) and I had something similar to PyCharm and fast. (nothing aga…
VSCode/Atom are great, but for most folks on UNIX they are worthless, since you have to use something else when ssh-d into another machine. So folks build these elaborate Vim and EMACS set-ups so that they could use the same editor and the same config on all of their machines, whether they're local or remote. Vim is an acquired taste, but once acquired, it's pretty awesome.
Nice post. I also really like you "space-vim" project. Another similarly named project — "SpaceVim" http://spacevim.org/ — was posted recently. "SpaceVim" was really upsetting because it missed so many of the important ideas of Spacemacs, such as pneumonic keybindings. "SpaceVim" is a garden variety vim distribution coopting the "Spacemacs" name, but you stayed true to the "Spacemacs" principles. Nice work!