We need more zero config tools

Post by zakm » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 1:04 AM UTC

II2II wrote: post #70

In some cases, the question is: what are sane defaults? Take emacs or vim. I know a lot of people use them as code editors, and think of them as code editors, but they are really general purpose text editors. It is going to be next to impossible to create a set of defaults that everyone, or even a majority of people, will agree are sane. (That said, they could be easier to configure.)

Post by xk3 » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 1:44 PM UTC

Zababa wrote: post #33

bpx51 wrote: post #12

Another tool that I can't live without, which requires no configuration at all is fzf, you can easily and (fuzz)yly find files in your system, move into directories, search in your command history, search active processes and kill them and a lot more. Give it a try

fzf ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ) is really great. Very useful for providing a quick and easy user interface. For example, I use it to fuzzy find inside git branches to have an "improved checkout". I do that since at work branches are usually named " - ", it's faster to search for the issue number.

    function zg --argument branch
        if test "$branch" = -
            git switch -
        else
            git checkout (git branch --list | fzf --query $branch --select-1 --exit-0 | string trim)
        end
    end