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I tried iTerm for about a year. After getting fed up watching it lag or crash all the time. I definitely went back to stock Terminal and haven't looked back.
Why is this article so Mac oriented? So here's tip 9: Use a nice Linux or similar machine with a pleasant to use clicky keyboard and a mouse which allows text highlight and middle click paste.
"7. Use vi-mode in Your Shell" Tried this and gave it up. Your shell may be (somewhat) vi compatible but the applications you use mostly are not so you'll have to break out of the vi mindset at all sorts of inopportune moments. That, and modal editing, while perfectly alright for text editing, maps rather lousily to command line operations. You're much better off getting used to some basic Emacs-style key bindings th…
What I did, for example, was that I enabled vi-mode in my shell but also re-enabled some emacs-keybindings like CTRL-E and CTRL-A for ending and beginning of a command because I learned them like a lifetime ago when I first got used to the shell without even knowing they were emacs-keybindings. But that way I am also able to hit ESC and do a / for a search, like within vim, which I am much more used to than a search…
I'm not convinced that powerful editing is necessary for the command line, but familiar shortcuts for beginning/end seem very useful.
1. Remap Your CAPSLOCK Key Another upside to this is that people will gradually stop asking to use your laptop 'for just a minute'.
Why is this article so Mac oriented? So here's tip 9: Use a nice Linux or similar machine with a pleasant to use clicky keyboard and a mouse which allows text highlight and middle click paste.
This will turn on vi mode for anything that uses the readline library (there's a good chance your favorite database command line uses it and any other apps that also use the readline library)
Caps remap is my favorite. My pinky is much happier.
I do this as well, but I sometimes question whether or not it was worth the frustration when using a colleagues computer.
For whatever the reason though, capslock/escape remapping is not one of those changes for me. Working on a machine that doesn't have that is absolutely crippling; it takes a great deal of effort to not constantly hit capslock.
My solution is to only use my own computers. Mileage may vary. ;)
Caps remap is my favorite. My pinky is much happier.
As any book about RSI will tell you, you should not use your pinky finger for pressing Ctrl regardless of whether it's mapped on Caps Lock or on the default key.