Posts tagged: linux

In honor of the neovim 0.6.0 release, I decided to do a funny skit installing neovim, and fix up my install script in the process as part of my challenge to fix up my dotfiles. I ran into one snag where I was not updating the repo that I cloned. I moved it to the directory I now keep third-party git repos and set it to update with ansible. https://youtu.be/64oKLphhBuo The thing that took me the longest to realize was…. I had a path issue pointing me to an old install of the appimage over the fresh build, fixed that up and now we are on 0.7.0 nightly. Related Links # https://neovim.io/ https://github.com/neovim/neovim https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.6.0

https://youtu.be/Jq1Y48F_rOU I am challenging myself to 30 days of dotfile ricing. I have been on linux desktop for a few months now and have a pretty good workflow going, I have the coarse edits done to my workflow, but it has some rough edges that need sanded down. It’s time to squash some of those little annoyances that still exist in my setup. This is primarily going to be focused on productivity, but may have a few things to just look better. This will comprise heavily of aliases, zsh, and nvim config. Follow the YouTube channel or the rss feed to stay up to date.

Trying to read a.ipynb file without starting a jupyter server? jut has you covered. https://youtu.be/t8AvImnwor0 watch the video version of this post on YouTube install # is packaged and available on pypi so installing is as easy as pip installing it. examples # what are all the commands available for jut? # Take a look at the help of the cli to explore all the options that it offers. There is some good information on the projects readme as well. without installing # using pipx Don’t want jut cluttering up your venv, or want to save yourself from making a new one, can manage a separate virual environment for you. This is one of the biggest selling points for me. nbconvert # is the lightweight option that I think will fit the bill often for me, but it just doesn’t always cut it. Mostly if there are images in the notebook or large output that is hard to read, its time to pull out the medium guns that sit between fulling running jupyter and. nbconvert does not have its own cli, instead it…

I’ve slowly adding more and more lua functions into my neovim configuration, and recently I noticed a pattern for a class of functions that reach out to run shell commands that can be abstracted away. https://youtu.be/8m5ipBuopPU Telegraph.nvim # Check out the project readme for the most up to date details on the plugin itself. Motivation # I want a simple way to make remaps into shell commands that can open new tmux windows, popups, or just run a command with context from the editor. For example I want to make remaps to do things like open the current file in lookatme. The main goal here is that remaps become one liners that can just be put directly in my without creating a whole new lua module for each shell command I want to bind. how # takes in a argument to determine where to tun the command.j (default) runs command in the built in terminal runs command in a new tmux session and joins it. runs command in a tmux popup window. runs command in a tmux session and displays it in a popu…

https://youtu.be/5KE7Il7SOEk This is something that I made up but use every single day, this is what keeps much of what is on my blog or my teams private work wiki going. I have a few very important directories that I have assigned directly to a hotkey for fast session switching. tmux new-session This one is building off of yeserday’s new-session post, make sure you check that one out as well. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.

https://youtu.be/A1qx3tNKDdA tmux detach is a handy tmux command that will quit your current session while keeping it running. The full name of the comamnd is, is a shorthand. default keybinding I have mine bound to where mod is alt. https://waylonwalker.com/tmux-nav-2021/ for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.

https://youtu.be/JQ0yDCVu44E attach is one of the most useful features of tmux. If you have no interest in tmux for pane and window management, you should use tmux for this. It can be a life saver if you ever get disconnected from the host machine or accidently close your terminal you can connect right back into the session you were just in using attach. attach # this command will simply attach back to tmux if you are ever disconnected If you ever run long running tasks on a remote machine by sshing into this you should be doing it inside tmux, or something like tmux so that you do not loose your work. attach to a specific session # If you have multiple sessions running you can select the session that you want to attach to by passing. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.

https://youtu.be/LY41GLn_DGg tmux ls will list the sessions that you have running within the tmux server if tmux is currently running. This is handy to combine with commands such as. tmux attach How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.

https://youtu.be/SNu-4IrkjAs So far we have covered a lot of tmux commands and how they map to keybindings but these same commands can be executed at the command line. From the command line # Let’s make a popup that displays our git status for 5s or until we close it manually. We can run the following command at the command line, in a split. From the tmux command line # Or we can open the tmux command line and run it from tmux’s built in command line, which is very similar to bim EX mode. By default the tmux command line can be opened with. 🗒️ note that the tmux command is called by default when inside of tmux. Make it a keybinding # Finally we can make it a keybinding by adding a bind command ahead of our tmux command, then we can execute this in the tmux command line or add it to our. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.

https://youtu.be/-ypY_-VmBKk tmux copy-mode is a tmux mode that lets you scroll, search, copy, and jump your way through a pane. There are a ton of keybindings for copy-mode, the main ones you will need to know are for searching down for searching up, for next item, for starting a selection, and enter to copy the selection. Arrow keys will be used for navigation unless you have specified vi mode, then it will be. Default keybinding to get into copy mode is. If you are a vim user you will likely want to use vi style keys, add this to your file to enable vi mode. full list of copy-mode keybindings from the man page. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.

https://youtu.be/Vm5rRtcVXLw Join-pane allows you to join panes that you have broken away from your window, or created in a different window to the window you want it in. As far as I know there is not a default keybinding for it. Before you can join a pane you must first have a pane marked to join. Once you mark a pane, go back to the window you want to join it to and join-pane. My keybindings, you must add this to your file to use them. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post Also check out the full YouTube tmux-playlist to see all of the videos in this series.

https://youtu.be/ICL609F2xnc Break-pane is a handy tmux command when your layout gets too cramped and you want to just move a split into its own window. Calling does exactly that, it creates a for you and moves your currently selected split into that window Default key binding for How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

https://youtu.be/Rn6mOarCQ-Y Zooming into the current split in tmux is a valuable tool to give yourself some screen real estate. These days I am almost always presenting, streaming, or pairing up with a co-worker over a video call. Since I am always sharing my screen I am generally zoomed in to a level that is just a bit uncomfortable, so anytime I make a split it is really uncomfortable, being able to zoom into the split I am focused on is a big help, and also help anyone watching follow where I am currently working. Default key bindings for zooming the current split I have rebound this to match the default binding with mod+z rather so that I get that single keystroke experience. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

https://youtu.be/YRPZBv-iYyE New window as it sounds makes new windows in tmux. Windows are kind of like tabs. They are another screen within your sessions that you can name and make new panes in. Default key bindings for creating and navigating windows in tmux. As always I have rebound these keys because I generally prefer a single keystroke over the prefix plus keybinding approach that tmux gives by default. When I started using tmux I did almost everything in one giant session with many panes and windows. It became a nightmare to manage and quickly get between two sets work efficiently. This year I leaned in on sessions quite heavily. Checkout this 👇 post to see that workflow in depth. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

https://youtu.be/CPZJZjN9YTY These are my MOST often used keybindings that I use in tmux. They allow me to jump between splits with ease with a vim style layout. I can hold mod and jump between panes with a familiar arrow key. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

https://youtu.be/06z5qf81ofo Rotate window is the main way that I navigated tmux before I learned. It allows you to change your focused pane, or rotate the position of the panes easily. Default keybindings My keybindings look just a bit different than the default ones, I do not like needing to hit prefix for every command, especially for repeated commands. I set a similar keybinding to the default one that uses mod instead of prefix. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

https://youtu.be/F0mHnwTrNNc When you get many splits going in tmux sometimes its time for a new layout. There are four layout strategies that I use, main-vertical, main-horizontal, even-vertical, even-horizontal. Almost always I am useing the main ones with mod plus a or mod plus shift a keybindings. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post

https://youtu.be/hpFYE2LU7xc Resizing panes in tmux can be quite difficult in default tmux, I use a set of keybingings to help resize panes in the rare occasions that I do need just a bit more space. I set the keybinding to the same as my split navigation bindings but shifted. They are very vim like (h,j,k,l). Most often when I need to resize panes I just grab the edge of the pane with my mouse. Yes the mouse, its not that often that I actually need to change the size of a pane. How I navigate tmux in 2021 for more information on how I navigate tmux, check out this full post