Truly a great story!

Reminds me of this story...

Two years ago I was collaborating with a coworker. Most of our time was in his office. I would look over his shoulder as he typed. He had recently adopted a new IDE and spent considerable time configuring it and learning its features. He was very proud of how productive it made him.

Then one day we collaborated in my office instead. I use plain Unix tools, all independent. He watched as I did everything he did but with point-tools instead of a huge IDE. Rather than switching between files, I started a new terminal window and ran Vim. Other windows were for the build-run-crash loop, analyzers, note-taking, etc. Often I would do Vim tricks like doing a calculation by writing a formula on a line in Vim and piping the line to "bc" (`!!bc RETURN`). In fact, many of his IDE features I would access by calling out to external programs.

I had to hold back a laugh when he said:

"Oh my God! Linux IS your IDE!"

Well, duh. Isn't that's what Ken and Dennis created in the 1970s? Unix started out as the ultimate development environment! It just also happens to run everything else now.

My .bashrc is on a quest to turn my yakuake into the better half of vscode. "The shell is my IDE" is definitely true.

Though Google takes up a worryingly large fraction of it. Wonder if there could be a shell tool to just dump the first stackoverflow hit for a search.

bashrc highlights: https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/649588a2f6fa27c717bd...

- ctrl-G for "directory up"

- ctrl-E for "find and open in editor" (using fzf, substitute 'edit' with your editor of choice; the history gymnastics is to basically pretend that you typed it in manually for purposes of bash history)

- and of course, for german keyboard layout devs, rebinding capslock to alt-gr.

I use https://github.com/samtay/so, which lets you search any stack exchange site (SO by default). It's fully terminal-based.