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Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?
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Re: Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?
#22My extremely short shell cheatsheet for things I do rarely enough to forget each time:
Process substitution:
bash: diff Re: Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?
#23http://cht.sh/ - I use this a lot. It outputs a short summary of common commands for many cli tools. You can curl to it https://cht.sh/grep for example or install their cli client
Re: Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?
#24On a related note: has anyone used a good tool for using/inserting these kinds of custom snippets? It would be neat to have a snippet manager with quick search bound to a keypress.
On Linux, you can make your own very quickly using Rofi and a clipboard manager.
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#25My only real cheatsheet is a list of shortcuts I maintain for programs/apps I use: system: ctrl+space=switch keyboard input language iterm2: cmd+; = autocomplete fn+cmd+ = scroll to bottom of buffer fn+cmd+^ = pgup buffer fn+cmd+v = pgdown buffer fn+ = end of line shift+cmd+[ = previous tab shift+cmd+] = next tab cmd+K = delete til end of line cmd+enter = full-screen on/off cmd+shift+e = show command timeline!!! chro…
You might like this: https://www.mediaatelier.com/CheatSheet/
I have this actually, but it typically only lists a small selection of shortcuts for the active application. Also doesn't work for web applications with shortcuts
Re: Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?
#26No maintained cheat sheet here either. I do use `history | grep` quite a lot though.
One thing I try to do is to keep my keyboard shortcuts consistent between programs/systems. That way the chance of my instinct of pressing `+a` to move the cursor to the start of the line will be correct more often.
Another thing I try to do when a project has a set of complex commands that are needed, is to add them as a rule in its Makefile, that way they're available for my colleagues as well.
Re: Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?
#27My extremely short shell cheatsheet for things I do rarely enough to forget each time: Process substitution: bash: diff
Process substitution is one of those tricks that I don't have to look up each time as I find that I'm always using it - but that probably says more about the number of times that I'm given randomly ordered files that I need to compare with diff to figure out what's actually changed.
Re: Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?
#28Don't really use a cheat sheet.
history and fzf is mostly what i use
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#29All kept in batch files in a directory with a meaningful name. When I need something what I do a ls on the directory and can recon the command I need.
Re: Ask HN: Can I see your cheatsheet?
#30On a related note: has anyone used a good tool for using/inserting these kinds of custom snippets? It would be neat to have a snippet manager with quick search bound to a keypress.
Make sure to create a cheatsheet for how to use your cheatsheet manager.