tools i am totally in love with...
ok, so here are a few tools i am totally and completely in love with:
Sublime Text 2
currently in public alpha (i’m using the latest build #2065) sublime text 2 is a stupid awesome text editor it does everything one could want a text editor to do. and it does it simply and elegantly. and it has BUNCHES of highlighting schemas… which has always been a pain for me. if you’re going to do syntax highlighting, i want it to highlight every type of syntax i work with!! (most FOSS dosn’t cut it in this respect… read on!) i imagine that this is kind of like textmate on OS X but i don’t know because textmate is only on OS X (which is really freaking annoying!!!). so if you are looking for a really good text editor, with really nice controls & really spiffy & really easy to use ui, get it! when i have the $$$ i’m buying myself a license!!! no it’s not open source, but it’s so cool it doesn’t have to be!!! so go out and get it… NOW!!!
Yakuake
so WTF is Yakuake?? from the wikipedia article it stands for “Yet Another Kuake” apparently after a terminal named Kuake that wanted to emulate Quake’s terminal… IDK if it succeeds or not, but i do know it’s freaking sporty!!! from what i understand it has some features that gnu screen and tmux are good for, which is screen multiplexing. and with some simple keyboard commands (ex: ctrl-shift-t splits the current console top to bottom, ctrl-shift-l splits it left to right, shift-tab switches to the next terminal on your screen, ctrl-shift-n brings up a new window tab, shift-left_arrow goes to the tab to the left, and i hope you can figure out what shift-right_arrow does…) what’s really nice is that most of these keyboard commands are common between lots of pre-exsisting applications, so i don’t ahve to invest much (if any) time in learning them. truth to tell… i’ve only had Yakuake for a few hours and i found out about the screen splitting stuff on accident (ctrl-shift-t in konsole gets a new tab… which led me to see my console window split in half)…
one of the nicer aspects of it though, is that it is a drop-down terminal. hit F12 and it drops down. do what you need to in the console. hit F12 again, and it’s gone!! i LOVE tools that get the hell out of my way when i’m working!!! i shouldn’t have to beg the tool to do what i want it to do, or get out of my way. (one of the big reasons why i’m not on windows, the whole OS seems to get im my way!!!)