hired VS scripts

( The ed clone I am writing: https://github.com/sidju/hired , and its backend: https://github.com/sidju/add-ed )

OR, use modern ED! https://github.com/sidju/hired Syntax highlighting, command history and replaceable backend.

My current solution is to have it written implementation agnostic for the only implementation that currently exists. ( Seen here: https://github.com/sidju/hired/blob/bde09775eca11c3f98f88f29eb006f4dc6e057fd/src/buffer/vecbuffer.rs#L249 ) In the longer term I intend on writing a macro that essentially creates that exact test but replaces the constructor ("VecBuffer::new()") with whatever string is given to the macro. That should work well, but will have to wait a little.

here's a Python script I use for testing 256-color support: show-all-256-colors

I try to minimize the differences from stock Ubuntu installs to as little as possible, and I try to automate the changes I make (e.g. I've a shell script that adjusts my GNOME setup using dconf load). This sometimes means that I have to participate in upstream development to get a bugfix or feature that I really want included directly upstream, so I won't have to do local builds of stuff after the next Ubuntu upgrade.

Oh! I remember now -- I created a wrapper ~/bin/ctags that updates .git/info/exclude before delegating to /usr/bin/ctags.

These days my wrapper does a bit more, since I build vim from the git repo and run it directly from the source tree by skipping the make install step (so my wrapper sets VIMRUNTIME instead).

I also have a ~/bin that I clone from https://github.com/mgedmin/scripts on some machines, where I need my helpful scripts. Some of these I run on a fresh Ubuntu install to tweak my GNOME desktop so I won't have to do that manually (250 ms keyboard repeat delay is a necessity for me, and I'd rather not try to match it exactly with a GUI slider, back when GNOME had such a slider).

I do a fresh install every time I buy a new hard drive. I keep notes to all the customizations etc. I do to my machine, so it's easier to do it again, plus I try to script things for the same reason.