Hi, Yves, I use vim to teach my 5-day CFEngine class, I have hotkeys setup to run the current screen buffer using cf-agent or bash, whichever's appropriate. =) I find it very handy, as I can edit the examples to answer questions from students, and immediately run the result. I also have hotkeys to advance to the next file, or to go back.
However I don't capture the command output within vim, that we just look at and throw away when we are done. =) Best, -at On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.com> wrote: > > For people spending a lot of time in a terminal/shell (bash, csh etc...) do > you work from the shell or from an editor? > > The joke goes that people using emacs live inside emacs, and I have indeed > seen developers working from a simple window and sending chunk of code to a > compiler/repl right from emacs, now what about the shell? > > I'm a vi/vim person, and when working from the shell I tend to use one of > these two patterns: > > - run a command with no output redirection, then use "Shift-PgUP" and > "Shift-PgDn" to examine the output > > - run a command with a redirection to a file in /tmp, then "view" that > file to > be able to do searches etc on the output > > This morning it occurred to me (after 25 years of using UNIXes, I'm not > really > fast I guess) that if I know that the output is going to be very long and > it > is likely that I will want to do searches on the output, I can open a blank > file, then do something like (in vi/vim): > > esc-: r ! whois google.com > > Bingo! Then really, I can continue my day by doing "Shift-g" and re-using > the > above trick. It has the huge advantage to log everything I do, I guess I > could > clean up anything I don't really care for (or not and assume that anything > could be important, I just don't know yet), and save the file after the > date > and have a log of my work for the rest of my life. Now, I could see the > added > gymnastic of "esc-: r !" becoming a pain very quickly. > > Hence my question, anybody already doing something similar (Even with > emacs, I > guess that'd be the straw to get me to start using evil mode!)? Can you > describe? > > > Thanks. > -- > http://yves.zioup.com > gpg: 4096R/32B0F416 > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Need CFEngine training? Email train...@verticalsysadmin.com
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