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Does it contain emacs? That would be nice.
What's wrong with dired mode? Ok, you'll get each directory in its own buffer. But, thinking of that, it shouldn't be to hard to make dired mode recurse into subdirectories inside the same buffer. (And fold/unfold like orgmode does. ;-)
git config --global alias.wip "\!git add --all; git commit -a -m \"wip: update\""
git config --global alias.wtc "\!git add --all; git commit -a -m \"[WTC] \$(curl -s whatthecommit.com/index.txt)\""
git log --name-status
# or get modified history of a specified file
git log -p path/to/file.ext> if the directory has many files or sub-directories, tree becomes much less helpful: you only see the last screen full of information as files scroll past you. > broot solves this problem by being aware of the size of your terminal window and adapting its output to fit it. What? You can just pipe `tree` into `less`. The solution isn't to download Yet Another Binary that does this specific thing and doesn't come inst…
What's wrong with solving problems the unix guys already solved decades ago, and doing so less elegantly?
My point being: only replace your weapons of choice once you are confident you are using them to their full potential and you identify needs that these known tools wont solve.
I think productive programmers would get way further by learning powerful scripting and one liners than picking different pre existing binaries. Its a little oldschool but pipe is the most powerful concept on the command line and it’s wildly productive
Though I agree that new is not necessarily better, and programmers should absolutely try to stratch their own itch with the existing tools (bash, sed, awk and the likes), some new tools are a great improvement and should be granted as such when due. FZF, for instance, is a major novelty in terms of interface, and it really follows the UNIX philosophy and shows immense composability.
For his usecase of funky i use ~/.bash_aliases, that way i can easily share them between machines. Eg to quickly add a new one: alias als="nvim $HOME/.bash_aliases && source $HOME/.bash_aliases" Be careful with quoting though, got myself into a situation where every new terminal asked for the root password. Shellcheck found the reason quickly. (edit) Another benefit is that those aliases abstract over differences of…
Instead of creating aliases for .., I use this: function ..() { for i in $(seq 1 $1); do cd ..; done } which enables .. # up 1 dir .. 2 # up 2 dirs .. 42 # up 42 dirs Here are some more: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/unix-shell-tricks/
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What's wrong with solving problems the unix guys already solved decades ago, and doing so less elegantly?
Exactly, this is the opposite of the unix way of doing things. Do only one thing and well, be nimble.
Which makes sense, this is an article for people on Apple hardware (judging by the installation instructions), so no interest in keeping things "the unix way of doing things"
Brains recently got underrated. The way mcfly works is cool, but it offloads your habits to some “neural network” that you can’t control. There is not many methods slower than looking at unpredictable line-by-line output and almost nothing more anxious than a possibility of false choice done without thinking. This tool basically replaces a deterministic mismatch with a non-deterministic one. Your brain is good at pre…