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by kragen 5407 days ago
Reposting this for horseshoes; it seems to have been mysteriously censored.

Getting familiar with GNU screen and within vim, liberal use of :tabnew foo got me to prefer a terminal emulator for working and notes over eclipse / gedit / nautilus. (gt and gT move to different tabs and :tabm N moves the current tab to tab N btw). If from within vim you :mksession bar.vim, vim saves all your open tabs so you can :wqall and open the tabs again from the shell with vim -S bar.vim

Like seemingly everyone, I organize projects into project/doc, project/src, project/data, project/bin etc. For example, I have a start.vim each in project/doc and project/src.

Then I put lines in ~/.screenrc

  chdir /home/horseshoes/workin/myproject/doc
  screen -t myproject_doc vim -S start.vim
  chdir /home/horseshoes/workin/myproject/src
  screen -t myproject_src vim -S start.vim
  screen -t bash bash
When I start screen it automatically opens one window containing a vim sesh with all my most-looked-at documentation tabs (so I can refer to wth I was thinking and organize my mental pushdown stack a little), one window containing a sesh for the source files I currently work on, and a third window holds a shell so I can look for and alter other files or start sqlite3 or make or w/e.

The point is it fires up work for me so I just have to open a terminal and type screen and it's instantly ready compared to opening eclipse or visual studio and then navigating to the relevant related notes and documents, or cluttering up the place with a billion (or even 2 or 3) terminal emulators, since screen multiplexes them. I also like to have screen windows open with cmus (music) and a python interpreter (my calculator and preferred random 'what to make for dinner' decision maker).

I also prefer the command-line environment for programming and also most general use because of the kool tools it's full of you are no doubt very acquainted with (ls, locate, grep, less, ps, pipes et al).

(End of mysteriously censored post.)

I have no idea why this might have been censored. Maybe it's the obnoxious use of "w/e" as an abbreviation for "whatever"?
1 comments
burgerbrain 5407 days ago
horseshoes is hellbanned for this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928894

This is why I browse with dead comments enabled. A single particularly poor comment is a rather inaccurate indicator of future comment quality.

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cookiecaper 5407 days ago
Certainly some moderation is appropriate for that comment, but I think a permanent invisiban is a bit of an overreaction to that. Does this kind of thing happen frequently?
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silentbicycle 5407 days ago
Yes, more so than you might think. Another showdead user.
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everbanned 5407 days ago
With great frequency and very little forethought.
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