My setup

as of 20250313

browsing

Firefox + uBlock Origin

Tridactyl gives some vim keybindings an makes it fun to browse without using the mouse too much

When I want to read something in the terminal I use w3m -cols 80 | vim -

and to be fancy, I type yy to copy the current Firefox url and then type www to open it in w3m. The cool snippet is a fish abbreviation:

abbr -a -- 'www' 'w3m -cols 80 (xclip -selection c) | vim -R -'

coding

I have to use R for work and found I like it. I don't like RStudio much though, so I started using a plugin called Nvim-R which gives you a very nice REPL environment.

you can send lines and chinks to your R console, execute a whole file, view dataframes, ..., all from inside Vim. It's great!

I don't want to work in a notebook to get the same functionality in Python. I've been using vim-slime and like it. I added some maps and stuff to my vimrc: " vim-slime let g:slime_target = "tmux" let g:slime_python_ipython = 1 xmap ss SlimeRegionSend nmap l SlimeLineSend

which preserves my muscle memory across languages. I start tmux, openIPython in one pane and vim in the other. Love it.

OS etc.

I'm happy with Fedora. You've figured out by now I'm prone to fiddling with my setup. Fedora is Linux you don't have to think about much.

PaperWM has been fun to use for a while. Dump most stuff in workspace #1 and put a "work" terminal on #2.

fish promises it w"orks out of the box" and it really does offer a better fresh experience than bash/zsh. I got used to bash-style job control, though. I constantly suspend things with Ctrl+z and switch to the previously suspended job by typing %-, or bring the same task back into focus with %.

I got the functionality back with some abbreviations... abbr -a -- '%-' 'fg %(jobs | sed \'2q;d\' | cut -b 1)' and in ~/.config/fish/functions/\%.fish:
function % fg %1 end