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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.

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.

	# 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 "$@"
	}

	#!/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 }' \|

	# 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

	#!/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
	#