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tmux & neovim for editing files and organizing the terminal displays.
asciinema for recording and playing back terminal sessions.
I have mostly replaced all command line stuff with Emacs, but there are still a few CLI utilities that I continue to use, whether I am in the CLI directly or whether I am using Emacs:
tmuxorscreen(terminal multiplexing)bash(shell scripting)grep,sed(filtering, formatting)ps,pgrep,pkill(process control)ls,find,du(filesystem search)ssh,nc,rsync,sshfs,sftp(remote access, file transfer)tee,dd(pipe control)less,emacs,diff,patch,pandoc(text editing)man,apropos(manual)tar,gzip,bzip2,xz(archiving)hexdump,base64,basenc,sha256sum(data encoding, checksums)wget,curl, (HTTP client)dpkg,apt-get,guix(package management)mpv(media player)ldd,objdump,readelf(inspecting binary files)zfs(maintaining my backup filesystem)
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- gcalcli : helps accessing google calendar using calendar api
- neix : rss reader
- I don't know if it counts but : fish shell
rangerandmc- both are file managers, and their approach is so different that I choose one of them I need at the moment depending on what do I want to do (mcfor traditional file management,rangerfor looking around the directory tree and peeking into files)htop,tmux- classicsweechat,profanity- for my IM needsripgrep- for searching through filesmagic-wormholefor file and ssh public key exchangemoshfor when the network conditions aren't idealnmapto see if that machine I've connected into the network is up and what IP did it getbatfor quick looking into filesgdb, with mandatory gdb dashboardnvimfor serious text and code editing,microfor more casual editing
Ranger and/or vifm as file managers. Can't live without them
off the top of my head:
- vim
- git
- bash
- make
- whatever-compiler-im-using
- curl
- less
- grep
I mentioned this in another post, but tmux is awesome
Took me a while to get used to. As i have used screens for years. But tmux is so much better in the end
fzf for quickly matching file names especially deep in the directory hierarchy
ripgrep for quickly searching for text content within files
dtrx for handling the right extractions of different archive types
What is the difference between ripgrep and just plain grep?
ripgrep is a reimplementation of grep in Rust. It benchmarks faster for large file searches and also comes with quality of life features like syntax highlighting by default.
I basically live in nvim. Being able to configure my editor in an actual programming language makes it so much more useful to me than vim could ever be.
I found lua to be a better programming language, but the text specific design of vimscript makes way more sense to my brain.
Yes, Vimscript is way more intuitive than Lua in a lot of ways. And as far as programming languages go, Lua has some strange design choices that I'm not the biggest fan of, either. However, it really does open up a lot of possibilities when your configuration is programmatic.