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thn says:
I found this today on del.icio.us/popular : Launchy
Anyone tried it? I tried Colibri for a while, but didn't quite do it. I settled on SlickRun - you have to pre configure all your shortcuts tho...
All of those are for my work PC. I use a MAC at home, and it's pretty hard to compete with quicksilver
posted Jan 31
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Dan says:
I have used Launchy and loved it. Not as feature-ready as the mighty Quicksilver, but works just as well.
posted Feb 19
thn says:
yeah - actually I did try it out, and have stuck with it so far. not bad at all.
posted Feb 19
G*DuB says:
i'm coming in late on this one but i just wanted to give a 2nd up for Launchy - having used it as well as Slickrun, I think I'm leaning towards Launchy for the added 'Search' functionality it brings...without the 'bloat' one would incur with an app like Google Desktop.
Although the Search is maybe not as feature rich as Google Desktop, it's working fine for my purposes.
posted Mar 15
thn says:
In case you haven't seen it, this lifehacker cli article kind of captures the intent I had with this group. Although I don't use most of the specific tools it mentions...
posted Jan 29
Dirty Number says:
That is awesome! Beautiful screen shot. I've always wanted something like that for windows. It's nice to know there are others out there that prefer their fingers over the mouse!
posted Jan 26
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thn says:
The group image is my work machine running Cygwin through Console. It's the latter that allows transparency (and tabs), so that's my desktop image showing through.
posted Jan 26
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James says:
Damn, I never would of thought of looking for a windows console replacement. Thats one of those "why the hell didn't I think of that" ideas. Thanks tho, that might just make using the windows console bearable when its an absolute necessity :-)
posted Mar 9
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thn says:
So - I use vim as my text editor. The learning curve is a bit steep at first, but past a certain point, it's incredibly efficient and fun. At work, I use it through Cygwin.
I wanted to be able to use vim to edit textareas in firefox. There are a few solutions out there if you google it, but most involve gvim (the windowed version of vim, which I don't use). I found that I could configure the it's all text firefox extension with the path to my cygwin vim (C:\cygwin\bin\vim.exe) - and it works beautifully, just opens vim in a command window.
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posted Feb 23
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Brian says:
that's pretty sweet!
I always try different text editors but invariably end up using vim again. it's really hard to get away from the keyboard shortcuts (especially hjkl) once you've got the hang of them. who wants to reach for the mouse/trackpad/whatever while they're typing something?!
posted Mar 7
thn says:
yeah - right?
so, I've since moved to a linux machine at work. And, to use that FF extension with vim - I had to get the gnome version of vim. But it works fine, uses the same configuration file...
posted Mar 7
Brian says:
I use OS X, so I think vim is actually a bit out of date. it doesn't have some of the same cool syntax highlighting features that the version on my OpenBSD box has (7.something, I think). there's some version of gvim for OS X, but gvim has always weirded me out. I just with there was something like TextWrangler but with vim keyboard shortcuts. hell, everything should have vim keyboard shortcuts. I need to try turning them on in ksh.
posted Mar 7
Dirty Number says:
vi key bindings are chicken soup for the soul
posted Mar 17