TUIs and mouseless computing

The goal of the presentation

To learn at least one thing which will help you to improve your workflow.

Notes to myself:

The goal is to maximally exploit the screen space (on 13" laptop), avoid using mouse and repetitions.

I use Xubuntu, xfce4,
gnome-terminal
- Ctrl+Shift+n (new terminal in the same directory)
- no menu bar (waste of space)
- alternatives: st, urxvt, warp
- dark mode for the lack of a good light mode,
Bash (ubiquitous)
- reverse-i-search with Ctrl+r
- alternatives: zsh, fish,
layout
- QWERTY
- xmodmap (not anymore with Kinesis SmartSet), setup with .Xmodmap
- CapsLock → Mod4 (some people remap it to Ctrl),
AwesomeWM tiling window manager
- configuration in Lua
- .config/awesome/rc.lua
- Mod4+Enter (terminal)
- Mod4+hjkl (navigation)
- Mod4+Ctr+j (jump to screen)
- Mod4+j (next window)
- Mod4+n/m/…
- alternative: dwm, i3, xmonad,
Compose key,
aliases:
- j (opens journal (creates if necessary) for last 4 days; git commit upon quitting)
- ee (let me fuzzy search file in my personal wiki, edit it and commit)
- fvim (let me fuzzy search in subdirs and then edit)
- xdell (setups monitors at home), xfi (at work)
- setup in .bashrc
- ?? <query> (opens a search result from Google/DuckDuckGo in qutebrowser/firefox) and
dotfiles.

vi (1976), Vim (1991), Neovim (2014)
modal editing
- by default in normal mode
- modes “simulate” keyboard layers
- normal: navigation
- insert: editing (i, I, a, o, O, A)
- visual mode: highlighting
- visual block
- ex mode (q:): commands (:vi for visual)
movement on home row; do not use arrow keys
- hjkl (some people disable arrows)
- HLM
- ^E, ^Y
- (N)gg, G
- ^o
text objects and motions
- words, WORDS, sentences, paragraphs, tags
- in-line motions: w, W, e, E, f, F, t, ^, $
- commands: d, c, y, v; dd, yy
- {command}[{number}]{motion}{object}; caw, yi), d1000j
- paste: p, xp, ddp
repetition with .
J, / (n, N), :s, :g
macros
- sequence recorded in register
- q{register}, do, q
- run with {number}@{register}
- qagUw<Esc>/^:<Enter>nk<Esc>q
%sort, :!csv2md, :r!date
:term, ^w N
gqq, gx, gf, ga, C+a, C+x
undo (u), :earlier 2m
integrated :help
customization in ~/.vimrc
- ff for fuzzy search in the current directory
buffers, windows, tabs, sessions
set -o vi in Bash (.bashrc) for vi bindings in the command line