Tips¶

You’ll find below links to a bunch of tips I’ve written over the years, they aren’t in any particular order and some may be wildly out of date already.

  • BTS as a task manager
  • Beyond simple tab completion
  • Bugzilla mail with real names
  • Compiling C source in vim
  • Context aware diffs with git
  • Custom keybindings in the GTK+ file dialogs
  • Debugging Python RegEx
  • Disabling cursor blinking in GTK+
  • Fancy awesome theming
  • Finding a window’s owner
  • Formatting CSV files in the shell
  • Gentoo one liners
  • Importing gmail filters in mutt
  • Instant web server
  • “Kick me” birthday reminders
  • Making a nice home
  • Permissions
  • vim hacks
  • Documentation
  • Populating sup contacts from abook
  • Sharing Xresources between systems
  • Simple notifications in awesome
  • Window creation notifications
  • Network notifications
  • Theming mutt
  • Three mobile broadband in Linux
  • Toggling settings in vim
  • Uber pink prompts
  • Visual vim mode identifier
  • Zsh and the VCS
  • Proper keyboard shortcuts in GTK+
  • File renaming for the lazy
  • Vim with day/night colourschemes

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