Common VIM commands

Vim allows recording a batch of commands as a macro. This is handy if you need to do the same things over and over.

Here is how:

1. Press q to enter macro mode.
2. Press a letter (not a number!) key to assign a slot to your macro.
3. You are n...

grep is the go-to CLI tool to accomplish tasks like filtering large files for arbitrary keywords. When additional context is needed for search results, you might find yourself adding flags like -B5 -A10 to your query. Now, every search result ...

Below is a list of some VIM settings I find useful. You can add them to your .vimrc.

source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim                 " adds Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V; block visual mode is now Ctrl-Q
behave mswin

set autowriteall            ...

If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or C:\Users\<Username>\_vimrc (Windows):

set tabstop=2
set softtabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set expandtab

You can also cal...

Starting Terminator with split screens is quite simple: Just store a layout and start Terminator with the --layout <your layout> option.

However, if you want to run custom commands in your terminals, you need to do some work to keep these termi...

To activate the shell command, go to Tools > Create Command-line Launcher and confirm.

Now you have mine as bash command. Run this to open a project in RubyMine:

mine path/to/my_project

Booting Rubymine

The mine script will a...

Have you ever opened a file with vim, edited it and when you wanted to save your changes it told you "Can't open file for writing", because you opened it without sudo? There's an easy hack to let you write it anyway:

:w !sudo tee %

The...

The tree command will show you the contents of a directory and all its sub directories as a tree:

>tree
.
├── a
│   ├── file_1.txt
│   └── file_2.txt
└── b
    ├── c
    │   └── even_more.txt
    └── more.txt

3 directories, 4 files

If...

There is an option you can set so that when using the cd command, small typos are automatically corrected. Add the following to your ~/.bashrc:

# cd: autocorrect small typos and use best guess
shopt -s cdspell 

Example:

cd P...