I’ve been using tmux for a while no to manage my terminal sessions. One thing I kept on doing was after starting tmux that I would be manually adding windows, splitting them and issuing commands in each pane such as echoing the contents of log files with tail -f. I had heard about scripting tmux before but […]
For years I’ve used Courier New in my programming editors and terminal (PuTTY). But there’s a much better font available for that kind of stuff. For the last couple of years I’ve been using Consolas, which is shipped with Windows. I’ve configured my editors and PuTTY to use Consolas 10pt bold as I find it
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I thought it would be nice to start a series of posts on neat tricks and plugins for Vim, called Vim Essentials. I don’t know how often I will do these kind of posts, but I’ve got a couple in mind already. This first post I’ll start off with Powerline. A plugin for Vim that
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Since I’m not running a PHP version provided by my distribution I’m responsible for cleaning up old session files myself. Aside from PHP another Perl webapp I run also doesn’t clean up its own session files. Luckily cleaning up these old files is something that’s very easy to do under Linux. find /tmp/sess_* -mtime +2
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I usually use KDiff3 when viewing the differences between files and merging stuff together. But from time to time I’ve found vimdiff to be a nice alternative, especially when I’m logged in through SSH on a server. The problem is I don’t use it that often so I tend to forget the key combinations. So
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