Re: [SLUG] diffstat, Ctrl-R, pushd/popd

2005-02-09 Thread James Gregory
Hey, this is a fun game!

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:33 +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
> At Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:42:31 +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
> > 1/ Ctrl-R history searching
> > 
> > When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up will 
> > search
> > backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to find out that  
> > you
> > could search backs through the history by typing Ctrl-R and a search string.
> 
> One of my favourite is M-.  (thats alt or maybe windows key and
> full-stop)

I've put this:

bind "\C-b":vi-bWord
bind "\C-f":vi-fWord

in my .bashrc to let me use ctrl-f/b to move forward and backwards
words. It was recently pointed out to me though that you can actually do
this with alt-f/b without any .bashrc modification at all.

Also, this:

alias screen='screen -e^\`\`'

makes the 'screen key' ctrl-~, which means I don't go crazy every time I
try to go to the start of a line with ctrl-a in a screen session.

Keep this stuff coming. It makes my life easier!

James.

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Re: [SLUG] diffstat, Ctrl-R, pushd/popd

2005-02-09 Thread Ben de Luca
With bash:-
My typing is pretty poor, and I make a lot of typos
The substitution feature is some thing I use really frequently
so I type
:>: scream   (oops)
>: ^am^en
screen   (yay)
On 09/02/2005, at 11:03 PM, Gottfried Szing wrote:
1/ Ctrl-R history searching
When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up 
will
search backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to 
find
out that you could search backs through the history by typing Ctrl-R
and a search string.
One of my favourite is M-.  (thats alt or maybe windows key and
full-stop)
That will cycle through the last word on the last commands.
for those who are using the bash a nice list of shortcuts:
http://hajek.stat.ubc.ca/~harry/local/bash.html
cu
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Re: [SLUG] diffstat, Ctrl-R, pushd/popd

2005-02-09 Thread Gottfried Szing
>> 1/ Ctrl-R history searching
>>
>> When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up will
>> search backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to find
>> out that you could search backs through the history by typing Ctrl-R
>> and a search string.
>
> One of my favourite is M-.  (thats alt or maybe windows key and
> full-stop)
>
> That will cycle through the last word on the last commands.

for those who are using the bash a nice list of shortcuts:

http://hajek.stat.ubc.ca/~harry/local/bash.html

cu

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Re: [SLUG] diffstat, Ctrl-R, pushd/popd

2005-02-09 Thread Angus Lees
At Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:42:31 +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
> 1/ Ctrl-R history searching
> 
> When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up will search
> backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to find out that  you
> could search backs through the history by typing Ctrl-R and a search string.

One of my favourite is M-.  (thats alt or maybe windows key and
full-stop)

That will cycle through the last word on the last commands.

(Of course zsh has all sorts of exciting keys, but I won't turn this
into a zsh-specific mail..)

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[SLUG] diffstat, Ctrl-R, pushd/popd

2005-02-08 Thread Benno
The amount of power in the UNIX shell and related command lines tools
is really quite amazing, however I find there are some things out there
that I never know about until someone points them out to you. So I'm 
going to point out some tricks that have saved me heaps of time, but didn't
really know until someone pointed them out to me:

1/ Ctrl-R history searching

When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up will search
backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to find out that  you
could search backs through the history by typing Ctrl-R and a search string.

2/ popd/pushd

If you find yourself traversing directores often pushd and popd are really 
useful.


3/ diffstat

Provides a nice concise of a diff file.

Cheers,

Benno
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