On History and VIM
The command line is an effective way of getting things done.
One of the things I like the most is how obvious are the tasks
that deserves being automated by just running the history command
and checking what you do most.
I did some adjustments in my history, like making it twice as big as
default settings in Ubuntu. I operate the history a lot, mostly with
ctrl+r in bash, and then I can use my brain to remember other things.
When I am lazy I throw some history | grep command I don't remember parameters,
pandoc and tar are good examples. Some git magic I usually anotate
as a gist in github since I have a haystack of git commands in my
history.
The thing about history is that once you deal with a lot, you eventually will fall into having carefully written bash scripts that make your work easier - like publishing a python lib to Python Package Index.
And while you are at the command line, I really recommend you to learn
vim, it's an awesome text editor that can be extended with many plugins.
My favorite right now is ZenRoom2, that can be called by typing :Goyo,
it will give you a confortable place to write texts distraction free.
Tags: VIM, command-line-tools