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Anyways I find it mind boggling how many useful actions are not known by „normal people”. Most people are really using computers in a very inefficient way.
My idea is if we would spend time making people learn computers or software they use daily better - we wouldn’t need AI agents and we would triple GDP.
The thing with a lot of these tricks is that you have to get into the habit of using them. I knew `Ctrl+r` for history since I learned about the command line. I even have a nice shell integration with fzf. But I still used the up/down arrow keys for years or scrolled up when I was looking for a previous command, because I never remembered the shortcut and just took the path of least resistance to find something. Usua…
atuin kind of fixes this habit, when you click up you get a list of the latest commands, and you can just start typing to search. It's extremely natural.
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There are several keyboard shortcuts that you would never find out from watching an agent, but are mindblowing to new Linux users. I suck at remembering vim keybindings, but I have ingrained ctrl+a ctrl+e for jumping to the start/end of a string (which also works all over OS X). I had been a developer for an embarassing amount of time before I discovered those. There are other terminal specific shortcuts for removing…
Another one, not quite as handy but still awesome: ctrl s / ctrl-q. This freezes/unfreezes the terminal output so you can read it, without interrupting your program. Useful for very fast walls of text.
The most useful shell trick I've used to date is mapping the 'cd' command to 'zoxide', which is a more powerful version of cd that remembers folders you've been to.
Is it much more powerful, than pushd?
Those were not programming tricks, but computing tricks or command line/sql tricks. Anyways I find it mind boggling how many useful actions are not known by „normal people”. Most people are really using computers in a very inefficient way. My idea is if we would spend time making people learn computers or software they use daily better - we wouldn’t need AI agents and we would triple GDP.
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I was my most effective when I had a bunch of cheat sheets taped up in my workspace.
Hot-desking killed this practice. I now get desk anxiety on my in-office days
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Hot-desking killed this practice. I now get desk anxiety on my in-office days
Have an AI agent compile the cheat sheets into a searchable website hosted on Github for your own personal reference.
what a time to be alive.
Additional tip: In the macOS terminal you can... Ctrl + Option + - ...and it'll undo your typing. Dunno about other OS keys!
I’ve always used Ctrl+U, it’s an Emacs shortcut, so it works in many shells and other prompts (especially since readline supports it) by default.
(For example Ctrl+Opt+- doesn’t seem to work in the Python REPL whereas Ctrl+U does.)
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> But I still used the up/down arrow keys for years or scrolled up when I was looking for a previous command It's not even that bad of a habit with zsh either where it will only scroll through history matching a substring in your history, for instance if I type "rg -i" and then start pressing up arrow, it will only cycle through history entries starting with "rg -i".
Clearly I am missing some setting. On zsh on macOS and I tried what you just said and it doesn't work like this
bindkey '^[[A' history-search-backward
bindkey '^[[B' history-search-forward
The thing with a lot of these tricks is that you have to get into the habit of using them. I knew `Ctrl+r` for history since I learned about the command line. I even have a nice shell integration with fzf. But I still used the up/down arrow keys for years or scrolled up when I was looking for a previous command, because I never remembered the shortcut and just took the path of least resistance to find something. Usua…