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[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 34 points 10 months ago

Eeeehhhh, I was kinda jealous of one of my coworkers Doom Emacs setup. He had automated like 80% of his own job with it. Still haven't bothered to try to learn it myself. One of these days...

[-] hackris@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago

What did they automate? I'm trying to get some ideas for my Neov... uhhhh... Emacs with evil-mode setup.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He did this thing where he unified his shell history across thousands of hosts - it was super handy given our extensive use of Ansible playbooks and database managment commands. He could then use a couple hotkeys to query this history within a new open document. Super handy for writing out shell command steps or wrapping things in a bash script you're working on. Unfortunately I don't really have a link to HOW to do this, I just remember thinking "Oh my god, that would save me SO much time".

Nowadays, I just have this giant document with hundreds of our runbook commands and enable Github Copilot to make it SUPER easy to do the same thing without establishing an SSH session in the backend.

[-] hackris@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Wow, that's super useful! I don't have thousands of hosts, but even with a dozen, it would save me so much time. Why have I never thought of doing this? Thanks for the idea! (now I just need a few lonely evenings configuring the thing)

[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

There's also Xpipe for that.

[-] asahi@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

atuin might be useful it syncs your shell history

[-] aoidenpa@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I returned to emacs yesterday after using vscode out of laziness. I set up doom emacs and got everything I needed. Now typing is fun again. Actually before that tried neovim for the first time. I can't do modal. Makes me very uncomfortable.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hi, what do you mean by modal?

[-] aoidenpa@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

In vi for example you switch between modes. In insert mode you can insert text and in normal mode you can move around and do many other actions to edit. Getting used to this takes time and I don't have the energy for now.

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