Tag Archives: CLI

Happy 20th Birthday, Vim!

Posted on 02 Nov 2011 by Robert Daeley

Today marks the 20th anniversary of my personal favorite text editor, Vim. Ars Technica has a great article marking the occasion and talking about some Vim history in “Two decades of productivity: Vim’s 20th anniversary” The Vim text editor was … Continue reading →

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Dotfiles

Posted on 21 Jul 2011 by Robert Daeley

I’ve got a dotfile repository started and now public, which you can reach either via the menubar at the top of the page, or directly at this URL. At the moment, I’ve got my RSS feed subscriptions, my bashrc, and … Continue reading →

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Command Line Chess and Go

Posted on 10 Jul 2011 by Robert Daeley

It’s not all email programs and web browsers on the command line. Here’s a prime example: (Click to enlarge.) That’s gnuchess on the left and gnugo on the right (in two different tmux panes). If you happen to be on … Continue reading →

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Add weather to your tmux status line

Posted on 07 Jul 2011 by Robert Daeley

Here’s a quick method to add your local weather report to your tmux status line. First, have a look at the lower right of this screenshot to see what we’re talking about: (Click to enlarge.) Okay, here are the commands … Continue reading →

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Learning tmux

Posted on 04 Jul 2011 by Robert Daeley

I’ve been experimenting with tmux the last couple of weeks, using it as a combination drop-in for screen, and for terminal multiplexing all the CLI programs I am also experimenting with as replacements for their GUI equivalents (more on this … Continue reading →

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Keeping it real

Posted on 05 Jun 2011 by Robert Daeley

Seen whilst browsing ESPN.com comments section using the ELinks console web browser: You are using an incompatible web browser. Sorry, we’re not cool enough to support your browser. Please keep it real with one of the following browsers: Mozilla Firefox … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo 2010: Days 19-22

Posted on 22 Nov 2010 by Robert Daeley
  • Day: 19-22
  • Days Left: 8
  • New Words: 6344
  • Total Words: 26456
  • Food: Pasta and sauce a la Denyse
  • Fluids: Water and diet coke
  • Exercise: Walking
  • Obsessing: Vimwiki, Zim, and command-line spreadsheets
  • Pondering: Dumping Facebook and the likelihood of making it to 50K this time around. :)
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