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How To Quit Vim and other CLI Fu
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mikebell
April 03, 2014
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How To Quit Vim and other CLI Fu
Basic introduction to the command line and the cool things you can do with it.
mikebell
April 03, 2014
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Transcript
HOW TO QUIT VIM! AND OTHER COMMAND LINE FU
WHO? Name - Mike Bell Twitter - Drupal.org - Github
- Where - CTI Digital - Drupal Technical Architect @mikebell_ mikebell_ mikebell
ANCIENT CHINESE PROVERB: For a truly unique string ask a
student to quit vim
IN REALITY... :q is all you need :wq to save
:q! when you're editing a file as sudo :wq! to save a file when editing as sudo
THANKS... ANY QUESTIONS?
MORE TO THE COMMANDLINE Your mileage may vary based on
OS
SHELLS Standard - Bash - https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html Awesome - ZSH -
http://www.zsh.org/ Windows Standard- DOS Windows New - Powershell
CLI PACKAGE MANAGERS APT Yum Brew (or MacPorts)
PHP CLI PECL/Pear - package managers php - itself composer
- libs and easy autoloading sf2 app/console - drush for symfony2 stuff
COOL THINGS cmatrix cowsay
HANDY CLI TOOLS Ack - grep replacement Ack for Drupal
- .acrkc customisation Screen
DRUSH A given in drupal drushcommands.com Drush autocomplete!
OH-MY-ZSH ZSH on steroids Plugins and Themes
OH-MY-ZSH PLUGINS Git Composer Symfony 2
DOTFILES FOR NOOBS What are they? Where are they? More
Info - http://dotfiles.github.io/
ITERM2 - TERMINAL++ Layouts Visor
GIT EXTRAS Cool tools missing from git https://github.com/visionmedia/git-extras Changelog -
git changelog Summaries and Statistics - git summary / git info
MISC KEYBOARD GOODIES Ctrl/Cmd on Forms - does magical things
Most popular sites have shortcuts - shift + ? on github
SHARING IS CARING! Any other examples?
THANKS... ANY QUESTIONS?