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Less Perplexing Terminal Multiplexing with tmux

As a professional problem solver, I spend a considerable portion of my day working at a command prompt within a terminal multiplexer called tmux.

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Safeguarding Your Productivity with Backups

Make a bootable backup of your hard drive so that you can quickly recover in the event of a hard drive failure and maintain your productivity.

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Highlight Strings in Cucumber Features with Vim

An "after" syntax file that adds highlighting to double quoted strings in Cucumber feature files when using tpope's vim-cucumber plugin.

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Splitting an SVN Repository

Split a SVN (subversion) repository, maintaining commit history during the migration, with svnadmin, svndumpfilter, and svn dump files.

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Run Tests From MacVim via Terminal.app or iTerm.app

AppleScript and Vimscript for running Ruby tests being edited in MacVim in either Terminal.app or iTerm.app. Works with Rspec, Cucumber, and Test::Unit tests.

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Atomic Vim

Atomic Vim provides all the benefits of vim with some of the best features of TextMate by assembling and customizing some of the best vim plugins.

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Some Useful Iconv Functionality

Iconv converts between character encodings. Special functionality includes the ability to transliterate characters and omit invalid characters from encodings.

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GNU Screen Crash Course

GNU Screen has a bit of a learning curve, so here’s a crash course on how to control screen.

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Sublime Text Editor Goes Cross-Platform

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Vi Editing Mode for Bash

Fortunately, you can change the command line editing mode used by Bash. The default is emacs-mode, but you can easily change it to vi-mode.

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Getting at a Childprocess’s pid

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Undelete!

I was working on a server this morning and accidentally deleted an important configuration file. Like many Linux users, I lamented the absence of an “undelete” command.

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