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by TurboHaskal 3296 days ago
If you are asking for things that increase my productivity:

- Computing power of course.

- magit: I cannot imagine using git without it. This and org-mode are still the reasons why I use Emacs.

- IntelliJ: My younger, stupid self always felt proud of using spartan tools (spartan, as in "emacs is too bloated and the only thing I need are ed or mg and how dare you using a mouse"). Fortunately I grew up and abandoned all sort of tribalistic or elitist thoughts. IDEs are an invaluable tool and I feel sorry for the suckers that are still trapped on the "programmers that use IDEs are inherently stupid" narrative.

- TOAD SQL & Winmerge: I don't work with Windows anymore but miss these two daily. Let me know if you know of tools that are similar for macOS / Linux.

- cwm: I rarely use it anymore as I don't boot my OpenBSD box as much as I'd like but it has this thing where you press M-/ (I think?) so you can query windows by name. It's really useful. So are groups.

- Ctrl-up & Ctrl-down in macOS. Win+tab in Windows.

- Windowmaker's Dockapps. I miss those.

- ACME: You don't know what you're talking about when you say "UNIX as IDE" if you haven't tried this.

- vi keybindings.

- A internal wiki: 1/4 of my time is spent writing or reading it.