pyxargs VS dotfiles

> I too can never remember jq syntax when I need to. I usually just end up writing a Python script

Same here! That's why for small things I made pyxargs [1] to use python in the shell. In another thread I also just learned of pyp [2] which I haven't tried yet but looks like it'd be even better for this use case.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs

[2] https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp

I personally use fish, but mostly for the out of the box auto completions and highlighting, I don't use it for actual scripting, nor have it set as the login shell due to the 2nd reason you mentioned.

I mostly use python as well, and for some short commands I made pyxargs [1] which lets you run python code on stdin, or a walk of your current directory.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs

pyxargs --py "print('{}') if os.path.ismount('{}') else ''" | pyxargs fusermount -u {}

My primary use case was using this with ffmpeg due to the encoding problem with xargs [2].

It can also run commands in parallel using a terminal multiplexer so outputs don't get mixed up or if they require user input.

[1] https://github.com/elesiuta/pyxargs

diffconflicts [dc] lets you resolve diffs as a two way diff between what's in the conflict markers instead of including the resolved parts in the diff. It opens the diff in vim but could be adapted for other editors. Verbose explanation: https://github.com/whiteinge/diffconflicts/blob/master/READM...

The author converted it to a vim plugin with the same name, but I use a different vim plugin implementation [mergetool].

[dc]: https://github.com/whiteinge/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/diffco...

Example: https://github.com/whiteinge/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/devdocs-local

Took me several years of forgetting script names before I finally just made a README of filenames and descriptions that I can search when I forget. I didn't want some complicated organization framework.

I ran a (mostly) vim-tmux-navigator setup for almost a year but ultimately removed it. It was indeed a seamless way to quickly jump between Vim and tmux panes but I felt it enabled learning some sloppy habits on my part.

I added filetype indent off so that indent plugins for the various languages would not automatically execute, and then I set smartindent so that regardless of what kind of file I'm editing it (very!) simply just re-uses the same indent from the previous line. For everything else I just manually ctrl-t/ctrl-d as I type.