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How I use my terminal

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538 points todsacerdoti | 4 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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klntsky ◴[23 Jun 25 17:51 UTC] No.44358290[source]▶
It is sad that we have to know how to configure tens of small utilities just to be productive. I ended up using emacs with some packages that I configure minimally, after spending a few hundreds of hours on ricing the shell, file managers, tmux, etc
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1. kjkjadksj ◴[23 Jun 25 18:48 UTC] No.44358801[source]▶
I make do with just nano and basic pane/window/sockets in tmux. Certainly didn’t put in a few hundred hours learning this. Not even a few hundred minutes.
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2. sevensor ◴[23 Jun 25 19:56 UTC] No.44359421[source]▶
I use kakoune + tmux very happily, and between the two of them I’ve spent maybe two hours on config in the last eight years. There’s a point of rapidly diminishing returns once you get past changing the control prefix in tmux to something that doesn’t cause carpal tunnel.
3. crmi ◴[23 Jun 25 20:50 UTC] No.44359941[source]▶
I've used vim to the stage that I not only know how to exit it, its muscle memory... And I still prefer nano. Its just better imo.
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4. adastra22 ◴[24 Jun 25 06:45 UTC] No.44363459[source]▶
That puts you vastly ahead of most people who encounter vim.