Debugging in the Terminal on OS X with LLDB
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Formatting Text in Skype
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Change to Vimdiff mode with two files open in a split view in vim
Often I found myself starting an extra vimdiff session while I am actually working in another vim session. Finally, I took the time to search for a solution and I came up with the following two lines in my .vimrc: nnoremap <leader>dt :windo diffthis<cr> nnoremap <leader>do :windo diffo<cr> They blindly go through all windows in the current view and enables or disable vimdiff, so use them with caution if you are a split view junky. ...
Copy Current Filename and Line Number to Clipboard With Vim
Today I was working with a colleague and reasoned about some code over chat. We sent filename and line number frequently and I got the impression that this is another perfect candidate for automation. Hence, I came up with the following solution, which can also be found on my .vimrc on github. Note that you need to check for the system vim is running on (linux/mac) or just pick the one line that matches your system. ...
TIG - Git Curses Interface
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UTF-8 Graphics in iTerm
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Download the Right FreeBSD Kernel Source Code
Today I wanted to download the right kernel source code and found this helping blog post. However, I got the feeling that the url can be built automatically to avoid fetching the wrong URL. Use the following command instead and it should always fetch the appropriate sources according to your currently running machine: fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/`uname -s`/releases/`uname -m`/`uname -r`/src.txz I hope this was at least a little helpful ;) Cheers, iss
LaTeX tikz externalize to reduce memory usage and cache figures
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LaTeX tikz main_memory problems on OS X
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Using xargs on OS X to rebuild all my tikzdevice images with Rscript
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