romainl

Redirect the output of a Vim or external command into a scratch buffer

Usage (any shell)

Show the full output of command :hi in a scratch buffer:

:Redir hi

Show the full output of command :!ls -al in a scratch buffer:

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

romainl

Vim: pushing built-in features beyond their limits

The situation

Searching can be an efficient way to navigate the current buffer.

The first search commands we learn are usually / and ?. These are seriously cool, especially with the incsearch option enabled which lets us keep typing to refine our search pattern. / and ? really shine when all we want is to jump to something we already have our eyeballs on but they are not fit for every situation:

• when we want to search something that's not directly there, those two commands can make us lose context very quickly,
• when we need to compare the matches.

junegunn

# GIT heart FZF
# -------------

is_in_git_repo() {
  git rev-parse HEAD > /dev/null 2>&1
}

fzf-down() {
  fzf --height 50% --min-height 20 --border --bind ctrl-/:toggle-preview "$@"
}

junegunn

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# vim: set filetype=ruby:
# b - browse Chrome bookmarks with fzf

[ $(uname) = Darwin ] || exit 1
which fzf > /dev/null 2>&1 || brew reinstall --HEAD fzf || exit 1

/usr/bin/ruby -x "$0"                                          |
  fzf-tmux -u 30% --ansi --multi --no-hscroll --tiebreak=begin |
  awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\t" } { print $2 }'                       |

dedy-purwanto

# There was a day where I have too many color schemes in iTerm2 and I want to remove them all.
# iTerm2 doesn't have "bulk remove" and it was literally painful to delete them one-by-one.

# iTerm2 save it's preference in ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist in a binary format
# What you need to do is basically copy that somewhere, convert to xml and remove color schemes in the xml files.

$ cd /tmp/
$ cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist .
$ plutil -convert xml1 com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
$ vi com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

uson1x

#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2275613/hack.sh | sh
#