Regular vim has tabs and you can bind any key you want to switching them (I use F2/F3). The default is :next and :prev or gt/gT. I’ve been using the feature for years now.

You can also open a list of files in separate tabs with the -p argument. So “vim -p CppFile.*” will open the .h and .cpp in separate tabs for example. You can then Y/p between the two buffers.

It’s so useful that I always “alias vi=vim -p” in my .profile.

I've just skimmed around it as someone who repeatedly need that kind of book to achieve little things in bash.

I understand bash is the basis of so many things, that its importance is just enormous.

But at the same time, I'm appalled by its syntax, idioms, etc. It's barely readable for the casual reader that I am. I wonder why nobody tries to provide a meaningful alternative. I've seen some (in python for example) but I'm kind of surprised nobody puts more money in such an effort.

For example, the "trim string" function described at the beginning of the book is horrible (although probably very clever). Why not simply provide a built in function ? That would make code so much cleaner...

I ask the question honestly, it's not a rant :-)

I spend loads of time in a shell. One day I'll push my full dotfiles publicly, but until then here's a few snippets I've found super handy. I'd advise against using them verbatim but there's a few things in there that took some time to figure out. Beware they can be somewhat buggy / break things though.

Highlights include:

- Bind C-c/C-v to Copy/Paste, bind C-g to sigterm (Note: Breaks docker interactive unless you mount bashrc into /etc/bashrc or similar!)

- Autorun tmux on SSH session

- Syntax/colour highlighting in zsh interactive, I think there's some diff/less/man magic in there too!

- Log all shell activity to .shell_logs (Be _super_ careful with this one, breaking it could prevent you opening an interactive shell

- Useful grep defaults, particularly relevant when using .shell_logs

Bashrc: https://gist.github.com/YoloClin/f4c82a6e693000a2da20e8029a4...

Zshrc: https://gist.github.com/YoloClin/ffd82f441d292ccc5f25c62a80c...

One thing I've lost love for is Powerline9k - Right-aligned data breaks copy/paste functionality, and patching fonts to get UI-arrows is fiddly for little functional value. If I ever need to fiddle with that stuff again, I'll configure a regular theme to do similar and go without the UI-arrow breaks.

I was considering hiding history-relevant log data (such as current system time) to behind a carriage return, something like PS1="$(date)\r$PS1".

I'm interested in hearing others' cool, non-standard hacks!

Maybe I'm completely missing the point of `bat` but I usually just use `view` (vim/neovim in readonly mode) if I want to read files with syntax highlighting, GitGutter, line numbers, etc.

Part 2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21119949

Other stuff with asteroids:

* RipGrep: Replace Grep and it is blazing fast

* exa: Replace ls with many more options

Diego I think you're using the word asteroids where you mean the word steroids.

i really wish spacemacs didn't have that pretty lame loading screen, as a spacevim devotee i found alot of things that spacemacs does that specifically address some issues i have with spacevim.

i know the correct path forward here is, of course, diving into the guts of spacevim and tinkering until it works for me, but i will post one quirk as it will probably be some time before i will be able to write my own comprehensive plugin:

the hugofy/markdown plugins seem to all do this awful thing in which they render the markdown on the fly. it's kinda neat for basic text formatting, but my god it is an utter nightmare if you have any sort of URL's or images, because the second you key in that second bracket, it suddenly dissapears and you're left having to basically guess your way through the process of typing the url and closing out the shortcode.

if someone knows of a markdown editor that plays nice, i'd love to see it. hope im not overlooking something painfully obvious here

anyways, i picked a hell of a time to dive into the commandline, a year ago i came across scoop/chocolatey and quickly discovered WSL, and thanks to a phenomenal amount of work by some great folks (even you, Person Reading This), my desktop is not much more than the lobby i pass through before going to where the magic happens: https://imgur.com/a/iCpWZAC

Just one link: https://terminalsare.sexy

I prefer my terminals dumb and without much color, as the UNIX gods intended them to be.

This being said, I'm in love with `fzf`, my workflow improved markedly after scripting (on mac)

`ggvi() { git grep "$@" | fzf | sed \"s/:/ +/\" | cut -d \":\" -f 1 | gxargs -r -o vim }`

This post is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874718

fzf + bat seems pretty nice!

export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ansi --preview-window 'right:60%' --preview 'bat --color=always --style=header,grid --line-range :300 {}'"

some vim enthousiast here scalded me for sending him spacevim linkand told me to use neovim. i don't use vim so i wouldn't know, and vim people seem easily offended :D. anyhow, just thought i'd not his input.

Why are dark themes considered cool? Am I missing something?

this is super awesome! love it, thanks for sharing spacevim is exactly what I have been looking for