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New comment by themadsens in "Stinkpot: SQLite-backed shell history"

themadsens — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:31:47 +0000

Just enable perpetual bash history and install fzf. That will get you CTRL-R (and a lot of other niceties) out of the box.

An ad-hoc replacement for multitail made with tmux and grcat

themadsens — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:06:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/themadsens/tmtail/tree/main

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830847

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New comment by themadsens in "Neovim 0.12.0"

themadsens — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:12:10 +0000

The dot command, as you probably well know, is a macro that captures the last change: was it '3cw' or 'cE' or '7s' or s or 'ct)', all changed to the last insert. All intuitively without you even having to think about it.

Much more powerful than "change all my selections to the next input" IMO.

New comment by themadsens in "Neovim 0.12.0"

themadsens — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:26:22 +0000

Whats with all the fuss over multicursor. How is this different from just using '.'

New comment by themadsens in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

themadsens — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:18:24 +0000

I naively assumed it would work on the already installed homebrew packages. No such luck.

After installing, 'nb list' and thus eg. 'nb outdated' will yield the empty list! I have absolutely no use for a competing homebrew installation that is mostly compatible ..

New comment by themadsens in "Hammerspoon"

themadsens — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:38:08 +0000

Maybe not: https://www.reddit.com/r/hammerspoon/comments/1puln7j/110_re... https://github.com/cmsj/Hammerspoon2

New comment by themadsens in "I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool"

themadsens — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:04:59 +0000

I was lucky enough that my first employer ran the very first 4.2BSD in Denmark outside academia (on a DEC-VAX/750), so i grew up with Bill Joy's newfangled "vi" and spent countless hours recap'ing the cheat sheet.

To this day stuff like "3dw" and "d}{{[P" are just second nature. Very much enjoying moders stuff like neovim and CoC/LSP too.

And yes, nvim is perferctly suitable for Java and maven with ctags/ripgrep/fzf etc. plugins

New comment by themadsens in "I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool"

themadsens — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:54:04 +0000

More often than not you want 'de' or 'ye' rather than 'dw' or 'yw'

New comment by themadsens in "A tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language can be AOT compiled"

themadsens — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:35:51 +0000

Sweet, very impressed.

To be really usable, for embedded and otherwise, a well documented and ergonomic C API for bindings is needed though.

The closest I could find was "If you need to add more predefined functions, add them in intrinsics.h." I will take a look though, this seems really promising

EDIT: Looks to be pretty easy to tack an external registration mechanism onto intrinsics.h. Good to go then ..

.. Only two SO comments at this point .. come on folks :-)

New comment by themadsens in "I ported pigz from Unix to Windows"

themadsens — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:03:44 +0000

I wish premake could gain more traction. It is the comprehensible alternative to Cmake etc.

New comment by themadsens in "The length of file names in early Unix"

themadsens — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:56:47 +0000

Oh yes. For one thing "hexdump -C ." would work out nicely in those days.

New comment by themadsens in "Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images"

themadsens — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:34:42 +0000

I always found buildroot a lot easier to fathom and harness. And certainly flexible enough with the ability patch every included recipe and package.

New comment by themadsens in "That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection"

themadsens — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:14:39 +0000

Well said! I have met a few of these codesmells where the actual functioning is hidden behind a bewildering maze of facades, shims, proxies and whatnot.

I guess some has had an irresistible itch to use as many patterns from the GoF book as possible.

New comment by themadsens in "Ghostty 1.0"

themadsens — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:14:09 +0000

Very impressed with ghostty so far, but: Main reasons for sticking with ITerm2 (for the moment at least):

- "Seamless" cut & paste with paste on "2 X right click" + "Trim trailing LF"

- Quadruple click "Smart selection"

- Brillant search with highlighting in text and scrollbar

- Support for OSC-1 "icon titles" in tabs, as opposed to OSC-0 "header title"

New comment by themadsens in "Ghostty 1.0 Is Coming"

themadsens — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 19:40:44 +0000

I connect to serial ports a lot in what I do, and never really understood why this should be handled by the terminal emulator. Much better done with eg. picocom, python serial.tools.miniterm or the like.

New comment by themadsens in "LuaRT: Lua programming environment for console, desktop applications for Windows"

themadsens — Sun, 26 May 2024 08:04:29 +0000

LuaRT is based on ZeroBrane, actually :-)

New comment by themadsens in "Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev"

themadsens — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:07:40 +0000

Alfred (https://alfredapp.com) has a snippet manager (and a _whole_ lot more kbd goodies)

New comment by themadsens in "So you've installed `fzf` – now what?"

themadsens — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:52:25 +0000

You can: Help for bash 'history -s args': The args are added to the end of the history list as a single entry

New comment by themadsens in "Using a Raspberry Pi to add a second HDMI port to a laptop"

themadsens — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:53:55 +0000

Incidentally, this is how you add a second external monitor to an M1/M2 macbook

New comment by themadsens in "Show HN: Procal: A simple Qt-based programming calculator"

themadsens — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 22:04:14 +0000

Hmm doesn't seem to do 64bit very well: 0xdeadbeefcafebabe -> 0xdeadbeefcafeb800

Is the result by any means passing through a double? like in freakin' JS!