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Re: Love Your Terminal

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Post by shurane »

irahul wrote: post #54
boyter wrote: post #43

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Being lazy usually. Also a mixture of devices and machines long before dropbox. So I became used to the defaults before there was a good solution to sync. You don't do much work in large corporations I guess. When issued equipment and not having to much control you find it easier to just adapt, which is what I did.

> You don't do much work in large corporations I guess. I used to work for one. I still do but now I use my own laptop. But that's not the point. The point is if you have a machine, you don't need special privileges to write to your own home directory. If your org stops you from pulling things from the internet, well, that's a different story.

Yes, so much easier to use your own machine for development just because you have control over everything. I'm sure some people need specialized machines, but for most... sticking to one laptop or ssh server really simplifies everything.

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Post by shurane »

MrGando wrote: post #117
jff wrote: post #114

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You can check Linux battery status by just reading from a certain file somewhere under /proc; being Linux, I'm certain there's an equivalent buried somewhere in /sys as well. You just read the file, it gives you back ASCII text, you're all set.

Will add Linux support asap :)

There's also `acpi -b`, which I think is available on most linux distros.

Re: Love Your Terminal

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Post by Nursie »

thedufer wrote: post #120
Nursie wrote: post #65

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A whole extra line above the working prompt? That just seems unnecessary. If you need that info at any particular moment, make a command. I used to have one called wi (short for Where am I?) that threw out similar info. But displayed constantly? Yuck!

How did wi differ from the built-in pwd? I've never found myself wishing for more than that.

Not by much, it was only four things - pwd, hostname, username and (when I was working in clearcase a lot) clearcase view name.

Just something I could run if I switched back to a shell and kinda forgot what or where it was.

Re: Love Your Terminal

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Post by jff »

shurane wrote: post #123
MrGando wrote: post #117

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Will add Linux support asap :)

There's also `acpi -b`, which I think is available on most linux distros.

It's not necessarily installed by default, though. If your Linux system can read the battery with acpi, it will show up in /sys. Although the 'acpi' program is convenient, it adds another dependency. Also, if you run 'acpi' under strace, you'll see that it just opens up /sys/class/power_supply and parses files under that.

Re: Love Your Terminal

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Post by LiveTheDream »

laumars wrote: post #87
Symmetry wrote: post #81

This seems like a good place to once again plug fish[1]. Exactly those goodies I want in a shell and the autocomplete is so convenient I no longer know how I lived without it. And there's all the other cruft removal. [1] http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/

I've just installed fish and it doesn't support bang (!) history nor some basic scripting tools (eg $?) which makes it pretty useless for power users. I can see how the colours and suggestions are great to those who are new to the command line though and there were some cool features (eg highlight search phrases from grep). But most of that stuff is just emphasising stuff you'd learn to spot anyway, after using the C…

I'm not familiar with fish, but highlighting search phrases from grep is a standard grep option (`--color`, or `--color=auto`)

Re: Love Your Terminal

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Post by eikenberry »

boyter wrote: post #14
wonnage wrote: post #9

Cool guide. For beginners I'd also suggest restraint with your dotfiles. It's easy to rush into installing oh-my-zsh and using vim with every plugin you can find, but I found that made for a really confusing learning experience, especially if your config ever breaks.

That's actually why I stopped tweaking things to hell and back, losing my config's was too painful. I usually just go for basic colour tweaks these days. It also makes me more portable and productive when I am using a new or someone else's machine.

How do you lose your configs? Laptops mean you always have your machine, github (and like) means you have your configs even when you don't, and of course backups mean never losing data.

Re: Love Your Terminal

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Post by mh- »

flexd wrote: post #75
loeschg wrote: post #10

Just spent some time putting some Star Wars in my terminal greeting. In case anyone is interested, I threw a .sh and .txt up at github :) https://github.com/loeschg/ascii-art

You could kick that up a notch with something I just threw together. http://npmjs.org/motd :)

If you told me 10 years ago that people would be auto-executing JavaScript upon SSHing to a server..

what have we done.

Re: Love Your Terminal

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Post by th »

Spakman wrote: post #63
__david__ wrote: post #15

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I don't understand why I'd want to use tmux locally. I'm a huge believer in tmux on remote machines though. Why would I want to use it on my local laptop?

I've only ever seen people advocate for tmux locally who can't (or don't want to) run something like xmonad as their window manager.

I would recommend a primarily tmux-based workflow unless you use a number of graphical programs that benefit greatly from the tiling paradigm.

I used to use Xmonad with tmux (and still do sometimes). I primarily use Unity with tmux now. I came to the realization that tmux had nearly nullified my need for a tiling window manager after I switched from gVim to terminal vim and noticing how much easier it made my workflow. My "ah ha" moment was the discovery of the distinction between sessions, windows, and panes and how each could interact with (or sometimes transform into) the each other.

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