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How I use my terminal

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538 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | source
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jynelson ◴[23 Jun 25 18:37 UTC] No.44358698[source]▶
i see a bunch of people saying things like "you can do this in vim or emacs". it's true, you can do fuzzy finding and panes/tabs in an editor. but then you are in a box. anything that involves interacting with the terminal requires either a dedicated plugin or opening another nested terminal emulator (e.g. `:terminal` in vim). one of the things i get from my setup that's not mentioned in this post is that i can hit `git show HEAD` <highlight files and choose one> <tab> and that will put the file name in the command. this works for arbitrary commands, not just git, because it works by doing meta-processing on the terminal.
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1. markasoftware ◴[23 Jun 25 20:54 UTC] No.44359972[source]▶
to be pedantic, if you're using `tmux`, you're already in a "box" and are using what amounts to a "nested terminal emulator"

Emacs and Vim are perfectly capable of taking arbitrary strings (which can be lines from the same terminal buffer that match a given regex) and putting them onto the command line of a terminal buffer. And more importantly, you can customize that whole process without writing C.