zoxide: tips and tricks
zoxide is a smart and fast alternative to cd that learns your directory usage patterns and allows you to jump to directories quickly. It’s one of my favorite command-line tools and it’s an essentia...
How to Fish: Moving Between Recent Directories
I love Fish, because it makes a lot of common everyday tasks easier and more convenient. One such task is moving (switching) between folders you’ve visited recently. In my case I often jump between...
How to Vim: Proper Ways to Escape
ESC (Escape) is one of the most central keys in the world of Vim. It takes you from Insert mode to Normal mode and it also serves to interrupt operations in progress in Vim. You’ll be using it a lo...
How to Vim: Reloading File Buffers
In Vim (and many other editors) we interact with the contents of files via the “file buffer” abstraction. Basically, that’s the in-memory representation of a file within a text editor, that occasio...
How to Vim: Jump Around
One of the most important aspects of effective editing is to be able to quickly move where you want to go in a buffer - e.g. to a specific line, paragraph, character, word, etc. When it comes to n...