NOTES.rst

Useful information

Firefox

• uBlock Origin
• Session Manger
• VimFx

Chrome

• uBlock Origin
• Freshstart Session Manager

Tmux

• Reference: https://tmuxp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/about_tmux.html#reference

Bash

• !^ - first argument of last command
• !$ - last argument of last command
• Access arguments from previous command !!:0, !!:1 and so on
• apropos -- search man pages for commands
• cd - returns to previous directory
• \command - appending a backslash avoids aliasing
• shopt - configure shell options
  • shopt -s - sets a given option
  • shopt -u - unsets a given option
• jobs - outputs the currently running jobs
  • %id or fg [id] - will bring the a given process back into foreground
  • C^Z - will suspend the current process
  • bg [id] - will place the suspended process into the background
• Put private bash files into .bash_private. Anything inside this folder will be source'd automatically.

Default Emacs bindings

• ^/ - undo
• ^P, ^N - previous/next
• M+b, M+f - move forward backwards, forwards
• ^w, M+d - - delete word backards, forwards

Vim

• Debugging plugins and config:
  • Use set verbosefile=vim.log and then :20verbose edit filename.
• = or ==: re-indent your current line or motion according to your indent expression (aka magically fix your indenting!).
• .vimrc files can be locally added to any directory. Files within the directory or its children will automatically use that configuration as well as the user-level configuration.
• box and bbox snippets for a comment box
• :SyntasticInfo - check syntax reporting
• :PymodeLintAuto - fix PEP8 issues in Python
• pclose will close the preview window
• Surroundings:
  • yswt - the t is for literal text
  • yswe - the e is for strongly emphasised text
  • yswf - the f is for functions
  • yswt - the t is for markup tags
• Windows:
  • Resize with <c-w>_ | =
  • Swap with <c-w>R
  • Break out into tab: <c-w>T
  • Close all windows except current: <c-w>o
  • Save state with :Obsession /save/path

Vim and Buildout

1. See https://github.com/davidjb/buildout-vim for a how-to.

Pass

pass init [GPG key IDs]
pass git init

readarray -t idents < ~/.password-store/.gpg-id
line=$(printf '"%s" ' "${idents[@]}")
pass init $line "New GPG Ident (Comment)"

Mass editing files

Use grepedit to easily modify a whole bunch of files using your configured EDITOR.

Ubuntu on Macbook

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard#Corrections
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook4-1
• https://01.org/blogs/rzhang/2015/best-practice-debug-linux-suspend/hibernate-issues

Heroku

• https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install-ubuntu.sh

Tools

• https://httpbin.org/

Applications

OpenShot

Video editing software

DVDStyler

DVD production software

youtube-dl

Online video and audio downloader for different media sites

Angry IP Scanner (ipscan)

Easy GUI scanning of network for devices and ports

Windows

Rufus

https://rufus.akeo.ie/, bootable USB creator for USB via disk image

Mac

• https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line
• afconvert input.mp3 ringtone.m4r -f m4af`

http://davidjb.com/blog/2016/12/creating-a-macos-recovery-partition-without-reinstalling-osx-or-re-running-your-installer/
sudo firmwarepasswd -setpasswd -setmode command