www-gem words: sharing my Linux experience with you

If your machine is equipped with a light sensor, you can set it up to auto adjust to the ambient light level.

Have you ever been interested in trackball but could not find one that suit your needs, or you did not really see why it would be useful, or you did not want to lose your current mouse ergonomic position?

Tim Pope is a well-known (Neo)vim plugin developer so it’s no surprise that this blog mentions another of them: tpope/vim-endwise.

Are you tired of constantly having to manually check your code for errors and inefficiencies?

Have you ever found it challenging to keep track of all the tasks and deadlines involved in a project?

ChatGPT is the new tool that everybody is talking about.

If you’re someone who frequently uses the terminal and often finds yourself forgetting whether a command has finished running or not, then the zsh-auto-notify plugin from Michael Aquilina is here to make your life easier.

Do you ever find yourself typing the same thing over and over again?

Vale is an open-source linter that provides real-time feedback on grammar, style, and tone, helping you improve the quality of your content.

A Hardware Always Hide A Software A wired Corne uses the quantum mechanical keyboard (QMK) firmware to run on the Nice!

Let me start this post with a statement and some brief personal history.

Whether you’re dealing with several projects at once or you’re just looking for this single file, it’s useful to be able to get to what you’re looking for quickly and easily.

Several tools relies on config files for their functioning and these files are most commonly placed in the $HOME, $HOME/.config/<app_dir>, or $HOME/<app_dir> directories.

Keeping your opened files organized has always been a challenge and people have developed tools to help us with this task (windows manager, windows switchers, file explorers…) but tabs are certainly one of the biggest player here.

Typing too fast while tired is the perfect combo for mistakes.

If you’re a (meo)vim user, you’re extremely familiar with the normal mode of course but have you ever heard of command normal (shorter norm).

If you spend quite some times writing in your preferred text editor, you know how cumbersome it is to look where you were the last time you access a document.

While I try to share on this blog stuff that are a little bit more confidential than I think they should be, we will talk today about a famous program: rofi .

A discussion on Mastodon today reminded me about tridactyl .

Let’s make it difficult: the sleuth.vim plugin for (Neo)vim, “automatically adjusts ‘shiftwidth’ and ’expandtab’ heuristically based on the current file, or, in the case the current file is new, blank, or otherwise insufficient, by looking at other files…

y default, each time you delete or change a text, that text is stored in (Neo)vim register automatically.

We always aim at keeping our system fast, efficient, and eye candy but the more we use it the more mess we create.

When you’re both a (Neo)vim and Zsh user, the best of both world meets when you activate the vi motions in Zsh with the command bindkey -v in the Zsh config file.

Due to my job I’ve always had to find a solution to write and organize my notes.

The first thing you do to feel yourself home with your preferred applications is to theme them.

When moving back to Vim after few years “ignoring” it, I quickly moved to Neovim and embraced the lua language which “pushed” me to use packer as my plugins manager of choice.

If you are familiar with keybindings, you may even have reached the point where you can’t live without them anymore and your touchpad shines like on its first day.

The definition of ytfzf given by its developer is that it is “a POSIX script that helps you find Youtube videos (without API) and opens/downloads them using mpv/youtube-dl”.

Since I’ve wrote a Why not another shell?

Today’s tweak is about auto launching a given windows manager (WM) based on the TTY you’re login from.

Renaming multiple files in one commandline may be challenging… until you discover that Zsh comes with a built-in feature called zmv which is unfortunately disabled by default.

Zsh power an be extended by the use of plugins.

Ok, so this blog at time of writing has two categories that are too often subjected to trolling or opinionated views.

I spent most of my time in the terminal just because I can now complete most of my tasks faster that way but - as everyone knows - image viewing in a terminal is not that great.

The first thing (would I dare saying the only one?)

The beauty of GNU/Linux is to allow users to built their system to match their specific needs to perfection while also avoiding bloated tools supercharged with hundreds of functions when each user will use only few of them.

I am sharing here few keybindings that helped me daily.

Over the years I realized that CLI tools and the terminal offered me more customization and were more efficient to complete most of my tasks even when compared to the counterpart GUI of the same applications.

You’re here and after reading the first two words of this awesome blog you’re now wondering how you may be sure to not miss any crucial news that will be posted.

While relative numbers are handy, the “hybrid” mode is real power.