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dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-25.
  • Less Miserable Bindings for QWERTZ?
    1 project | /r/stumpwm | 16 Nov 2022
    I bit the bullet and moved my mappings around. This is wholey unrelated, but do you know if stumpwm allows you to set the split size in dynamic groups? Like in dwm you can set the master window to be 50% of the screen with clients being the other 50%. So far in stumpwm I cannot find how and it seems hardcoded to 55%.
  • Does StumpWM Have Smart Borders Or A Way to Disable Borders All Together?
    1 project | /r/stumpwm | 12 Nov 2022
    I am trying to get stumpwm feeling a little bit more like an integrated environment visually. Currently I am attempting to fix two problems that would create that integrated feeling. The first one is adding smart border functionality. Basically smart borders are is when only one window is open no border is shown, but if more than one window is open a border is drawn. I tried researching this, but I can not find anything. I am also wanting to try disabling borders all together. I have never done this before so I have no idea if I would like it. I made the proper changes to my configuration to remove any border and ignore size hints, but I still have that stupid padding around terminals. Does anyone know how to disable those?
  • Turning Linux Into a Usable Lispy Machine?
    9 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 25 Oct 2022
    I have been doing research trying to figure out what software in my current toolchain has a Lisp, specifically Common Lisp, alternative. Having looked around I have been able to find a few thing.
  • How Do You Setup Workspaces Properly?
    2 projects | /r/stumpwm | 19 Oct 2022
    I am trying to setup my workspaces for stumpwm, but am running into a wall due to not being able to find much documentation, is there is even support, for a few things I want to do. For some background, I am coming from dwm which I have used for a few years and even forked a few times. In dwm I had a rather simple, but extremely useful, setup where I would store specific types of programs on specific tags. I was able to figure out getting this done in stumpwm and it working just fine. The main issue with this portion of my workspace setup is that the Default workspace still exists. I have tried to figure out how to delete it, but cannot. I know how to rename it, so I could just do that and use it for my terminals, but the issue arises where I have no idea how to change it from the default stacking layout to the dynamic one. Any advice? Additionally, is there a way to get something like dwm's fakefullscreen?
  • How Do I Unbind all Default Bindings and Bind Keys With Shift?
    2 projects | /r/stumpwm | 18 Oct 2022
    My brain hurts, I did this and now it just works.
  • Terminal Emulators Written in Common Lisp?
    2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 17 Oct 2022
    I am working on rebuilding my software toolchain around Common Lisp, because it is amazing. I have already started moving to sbcl from zsh, thanks to help from this subreddit and a friend, as well as moving away from my dwm fork to stumpwm. I am looking at what programs I have left to find replacements for and I know I am moving to either lem or gnu emacs, hopefully lem, from nvim and nyxt from firefox, but there are three programs I cannot find CL replacements for, my terminal, screen locker, and dynamic menu. The last two will be a pain, I know, but with the terminal I was shocked to see little to nothing online. I was able to find CLIM implementations of terminal emulators, but the one I found which I lost the link to is built into a desktop environment; I also don't know if it would run under X11 or Wayland. I was curious if there was someone here who would know of a terminal emulator that was written in CL? It doesn't need to be fancy, in fact the less fancy the better. I am just trying to figure out if I refork st or if there is a CL terminal I can use.
  • How Would One Bind Prefix + Key + Key?
    2 projects | /r/stumpwm | 17 Oct 2022
    I am unsure if you have interest, but is the final working product :D Thank you again! https://gitlab.com/FOSSilized_Daemon/dotfiles/-/blob/main/src/dotfiles/home/.library/generic/common-lisp/stumpwm/common-lisp/key-binding.lisp
  • How to Build a Proper Loading Order From ASDF?
    2 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 1 Oct 2022
    I am unsure if this would have any impact, but I am making some changes (as well as this) to sbcl; none that should cause this though.
  • Is There Any Method For Checking If REPL Is Running As a Login Shell?
    5 projects | /r/Common_Lisp | 28 Sep 2022
    An update to my other comment. I can confirm that the issues I am having are due to cl-repl. I took my exact configuration, commented out the first line of my replrc.lisp, hardcoded a require for asdf, using find-package always returns nil for some reason with asdf I don't know why, and then symlinked the file to ~/.sbclrc and everything loaded fine and ran fine. I am unsure what is up with cl-repl. I think I would rather use sbcl anyway, but I just need to figure out tab-completion, sytan highlighting if possible, and then determine how to check if asdf is installed to load it (I know I can always require it, but I want to proof this configuration in case I use it on a repl that does not autoload asdf).
  • Trying to Understand Strings in Common Lisp
    1 project | /r/Common_Lisp | 26 Sep 2022
    Porting my shell configuration to cl-repl in order to help me learn common lisp. So I have my asdf system being loaded in my .replrc and I know things are being loaded there just not this code for some reason. If it helps the code is here.

fzf

Posts with mentions or reviews of fzf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-25.
  • Ask HN: Any tool for managing large and variable command lines?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2024
    In addition, I think bash's `operate-and-get-next` can be very helpful. When you go back through your shell history, you can hit Ctrl+o instead of enter and it will execute the command then put the next one in your history on the command line, and keep track of where you are in your history. This way, you can rerun a bunch of commands by going to the first one and Ctrl+o till you are done. And you can edit those commands and hit Ctrl+o and still go to the next previously run command.

    Note: fzf's history search feature breaks this. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/2399

  • pyfzf : Python Fuzzy Finder
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Mar 2024
    fzf : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
  • Command Line Fuzzy Search
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
  • So You Think You Know Git – Git Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024
    Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig.

    "git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    "git gone" removes local branches that don't exist on the remote.

    "git root" prints out the root of the repo. You can alias it to "cd $(git root)", and zip back to the repo root from a deep directory structure. This one is less useful now for me since I started using zoxide to jump around. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

  • Which command did you run 1731 days ago?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
    > my history is so noisy I had to find another way

    The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2].

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax

    [2]: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...

  • Z – Jump Around
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024
    You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.

    I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.

    ¹ https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

    ² https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

  • alacritty-themes not working any more!!!
    6 projects | dev.to | 7 Jan 2024
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  • Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues

    [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

    [2] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

  • Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
    27 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2023
    You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:

    [1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...

  • Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dotfiles and fzf you can also consider the following projects:

tmux-resurrect - Persists tmux environment across system restarts.

peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool

zen-mode.nvim - 🧘 Distraction-free coding for Neovim

zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

z - z - jump around

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

vis - A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions

mcfly - Fly through your shell history. Great Scott!

firefox-csshacks - Collection of userstyles affecting the browser

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console