On 12/31/16, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would you like to share some Debian tips that made a significant > impact to your productivity in 2016? Things that you wish you had > known earlier. > > Here are my top two. > > 1) Zim > I found it useful for organizing thoughts, making todo lists, creating > documentation especially when working on multiple projects with many > task holders. > > The software can be installed by apt-get install zim. > > 2) Searching command line history using glob patterns > Basically, when reverse searching the command history using ctrl-r, > you can use glob expressions in the search by adding the following > lines to zshrc. > > # Use glob patterns when using ctrl-r > # ctrl-r wordA*wordB > # will match commands where wordA is followed by wordB with zero or more > number > # of characters in between. This functionality is not available in old zsh > # versions (ex:- 4.2.6) so check for its availability. > zle -al | grep -q history-incremental-pattern-search-backward > if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then > bindkey "\C-r" history-incremental-pattern-search-backward > fi > > Once done, ctrl-r sudo*apt*update will bring up "sudo apt-get install > update" if such a command already exists in the history. > > AFAIK only zsh has this functionality.
Hi.. I can't remember if it was this year or last so we can pretend it was this year that I stumbled upon the concept of "mindmapping" (mind mapping). I just ran a quick "apt-cache search" on it and didn't see much available when you use a single repository for Sid's packages. I "endure"... some ongoing "circumstances" where that would have been hugely beneficial for connecting the dots had I learned of the concept five or six years ago. No, I'm not using the concept this second, but FreeMind was one I did specifically test drive a while back. Am not finding it under Sid just this sec so not sure the where or how from the time I did download it. Best wishes in 2017 to everyone! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *
