I get annoyed when I resize Emacs, and the window becomes narrower than 80 columns. I’ve had a solution to this problem floating around my head for years, but I just haven’t run into this situation often enough to implement...
Read the post →Late last year, my friends and I were playing quite a bit of Borderlands 2. If you only have a finite amount of time, multiplayer Borderlands 2 involves a bit of cheating. Instead of farming the same items over and...
Read the post →It has been quite a while since I’ve made any updates to zsh-dwim. A few weeks ago, a feature request from PythonNut showed up in zsh-dwim’s issue tracker on GitHub. He asked me if I wouldn’t mind splitting the implementation...
Read the post →I’ve been stuck on my laptop for the last few months, and I’ve been doing my best to tolerate its old, slow, spinning hard drive. I’ve also been tweaking all sorts of settings in an attempt to make things more...
Read the post →I just happened to take a look at the log of my Emacs configuration Git repository yesterday. I don’t know what made me page through the entire log, but I was very excited to see that the oldest log entry...
Read the post →I’ve been using zbell for over a month now, and I’m really starting to rely on it. Old habits are hard to break. I still find myself peeking at long running processes just to see if they’ve finished, but I’m...
Read the post →I’m always on the lookout for neat, new ideas. Back in November, I saw a neat idea over at Reddit: using Zsh hooks to trigger a notification when a command takes a long time to complete. In the comments there,...
Read the post →I have dozens of files from various corners of the Internet in my ~/.emacs.d/lisp/ directory. I’ve tried to keep the important ones up to date, but I’ve never done a very good job of it. The ones that are old...
Read the post →I already generated a new 2048-bit RSA key pair for SSH this year, on January 3rd, to replace the 1024-bit DSA key pair that I had been using since October 23, 2010. I’ve been putting off generating a new key...
Read the post →I haven’t had a chance to update zsh-dwim in quite a while. I had a tiny spark of inspiration for a new transformation tonight, so I went ahead and implemented it. I also picked two other easy ideas off of...
Read the post →I’ve been trying to remember to implement items from my zsh-dwim notes in my spare time. I managed to implement some apt and dpkg helpers this week.
Read the post →This little Perl program has been sitting in my ~/bin directory for almost a year now. It has quite a few features that I don’t use very often, and some of those rarely used features seem to have a lot...
Read the post →Not long after I got zsh-dwim up and running, I went mining in my old Zsh and Bash history files looking for potential transformation candidates. I thought I already implemented them all, but I was doing some spring cleaning and...
Read the post →Zaw is a Zsh widget that works much like Emacs’s Helm or anything.el modules. I don’t use Helm or anything.el, and I don’t actually make full use of Zaw in that fashion, either. The only piece of Zaw that I...
Read the post →A few weeks ago, I received my first pull request on the zsh-dwim GitHub repository. Much to my surprise, it was a change to make zsh-dwim work on Mac OS X. I made a mistake that I’ve made a few...
Read the post →Some time last year, I decided it was finally time to try out a new color theme in my terminals and text editor. I have been a long time user of the old, standard “Linux console” colors for a very...
Read the post →I’ve had my eye on fasd for quite a while now. It does everything that autojump does and more. It didn’t look like it would be hard to use fasd in autojump’s place, but I am inherently lazy; I wouldn’t...
Read the post →Progress on zsh-dwim has been pretty slow lately. It didn’t take long to mine my shell history dry, and I have been having some difficulty coming up with new ideas. That is, until I came across a post on Reddit...
Read the post →I recently added transformations for two more commands, dstat and rsync, to zsh-dwim. These new transformations aren’t exactly in line with zsh-dwim’s original goal.
Read the post →I’ve been slowly and incrementally working on cleaning up my shell config. I’ve been procrastinating over my persist and forget system for quite a while now. I have it up and working here just fine, but I built it and...
Read the post →Most people are probably aware that calling the cd command without any arguments will take you back to your home directory. If you’re anything like me, you probably do this dozens of times each day.
Read the post →Last year I set up a key binding to automatically expand zsh global aliases as you type. I am definitely not the first person to do this, but I recently discovered a much cleaner way to accomplish the same thing....
Read the post →My migration from oh-my-zsh to Prezto actually began quite some time ago, and I accidentally made things much more complicated than they needed to be. I was completely switched over while Prezto was still a fork of the oh-my-zsh github...
Read the post →I went ahead and cleaned up zsh-dwim (Do What I Mean) quite a bit. If you haven’t been following along, zsh-dwim attempts to predict your intended next command when you hit control-u. I also recorded a short screen cast demonstrating...
Read the post →I’ve had a small idea rolling around in my head for while now. While operating in a shell, there are certain commands that often follow others. Sometimes there is a problem. You attempt to ssh into a host and it...
Read the post →My ~/bin directory and Bash configuration had been slowly growing since some time around 1998 or so. Every few years I would cut back the weeds, but it had definitely been steadily growing right up until I switched to zsh...
Read the post →When I first saw Zachary Wasserman’s Go Command, I wasn’t entirely convinced that it was a good idea. I figured you could get similar functionality with less typing by enabling autocd, properly configuring binfmt_misc, and setting the execute bit on...
Read the post →Update 2012-10-17: The slow start up with the newer zsh package was my own fault. In my transition to Prezto, I unintentionally removed the skip_global_compinit=1 from my .zshenv file. The global start up scripts for zsh-beta don’t call compinit, but...
Read the post →Update: I ended up switching from autojump to fasd, since fasd does everything autojump does and more. If you’re not already using autojump, then I would suggest skipping straight to fasd.
Read the post →I have been a bash user for about 15 years now. I have probably installed zsh at least a half dozen times over the years with the intention of giving it a proper try. Nine months ago I finally put...
Read the post →I saw an article about Stealing from Padre for Vim and I got a bit jealous that this functionality wasn't already available for Emacs. I guess I lucked out because it was very easy to make use of App::EditorTools in...
Read the post →For years I have been keeping a small font printout of my important SSH and GPG private keys hidden and locked away for safe-keeping. I have lost enough floppies, CDs, and DVDs to bit rot, so I do not have...
Read the post →I am pretty excited that yasnippet can now expand a snippet from inside another snippet. I've slowly been tweaking my own snippets to be able to better take advantage of this new feature. I've already gotten most of my Moose...
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