Oleg Valiulin archibald1418

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

CTRL + A — Move to the beginning of the line
CTRL + E — Move to the end of the line
CTRL + [left arrow] — Move one word backward (on some systems this is ALT + B)
CTRL + [right arrow] — Move one word forward (on some systems this is ALT + F)
CTRL + U — (bash) Clear the characters on the line before the current cursor position
CTRL + U —(zsh) If you're using the zsh, this will clear the entire line
CTRL + K — Clear the characters on the line after the current cursor position
ESC + [backspace] — Delete the word in front of the cursor

Note: these instructions are for pre-Sierra MacOS. Sierra (10.12) and newer users see https://gist.github.com/gravitylow/fb595186ce6068537a6e9da6d8b5b96d by @gravitylow

If you are getting this in gdb on OSX while trying to run a program:

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

	# Set the control character to Ctrl+Spacebar (instead of Ctrl+B)
	set -g prefix C-space
	unbind-key C-b
	bind-key C-space send-prefix

	# Set new panes to open in current directory
	bind c new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
	bind '"' split-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
	bind % split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}"