firefox + vim = vimperator

If you are an avid vim user and you were always wondering how to combine the power of vim with your browser, vimperator is your new best friend.

I just found out about vimperator randomly yesterday and added it to firefox immediately.  It’s kind of scary at first, but you soon feel right at home in your browser again.  It’s really scary how vim-like it is.  I still have a lot to learn for the basics in it, but you gotta start somewhere.

If you’re a vim addict (like myself), give it a try now!

If you’re a current vimperator user, any tips? Useful links?

excited for zsh!

Last night I got home from work and emerged zsh almost immediately.  Little did I know that if you don’t have a .zshrc in your home directory, there is an interactive setup for it!

I’m quite excited to get back home and finish the setup, however, I think I may have customized too early (as I usually end up doing) and may really end up stepping on my own toes.  The configuration/setup is quite esoteric I must say.  I can barely understand what exactly they are trying to get across and how it works.  I feel that if an experienced user would go through it, they’d have no problem, but as a first time never before used user, its quite complex.  Maybe examples would be useful there?

Anyways, I’m excited to start using it as there are some interesting speed-ups it mentions like:

/f/b as a shortcut to /foo/bar

And I think I’m getting used to menu completion.

Pretty soon I think I’ll be saying, “zsh, where have you been my whole life?!”.  And to be honest, I have only myself to blame.  That whole not wanting to change thing really gets in the way.  Learning new things is such a pain.

learning a new shell: zsh

So I’ve decided to start learning a new shell.  I see so much talk about zsh and finally, I’m going to attempt to learn to use it.  I installed it and started using it and a few things are immediately different.

Command completion is different, but slightly annoying.  I like how completion doesn’t scroll the terminal, it is paged AND appears below the command being completed.  (I didn’t like that at first, but now I think its actually quite ingenius) That being said, I which movement around the completion was more vi-like.  I want to use my home row movement keys “h j k l” and not move my hand all the way down to the arrow keys. Talk about inefficient.  Any zsh’ers out there know how to change that?  I’m sure there is a way, but I really haven’t had the time to go through a lot of documentation on it.

I’ve started to realize my only attachment to bash is familiarity and not features. I’ve used bash for more than 5 years now and while I use it extensively, I really believe that zsh most likely has done it better than bash.  A few things hint me this way just by using it for a few moments.

Btw, what’s with zsh assuming when I type something like:

bin

It cd’s me into my bin directory.  That’s all well and good, but when it comes to ‘help’, it just cd’s me into my help/ directory… Is there no bash help equivilent in zsh?  I guess I’d just find that rather odd as I am assuming there are plenty of shell built-in commands and help just seems natural.  Or maybe bash has tainted my “natural” sense.

Anyways, I’m on this new kick of trying to blog reguarly, so I really just needed an excuse to blog.  Let me know where to start with zsh!