Re: [dwm] Suckess Code Management

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:50:14 +0900
Alan Busby <thebusby_AT_thebusby.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Amit Uttamchandani
>
> > So if you need to work on let's say around 5-6 source code files along
> > with constant references to external files such as pdf's, etc. you have
> > multiple tabs in a terminal or multiple shells open and use that to
> > navigate the file system? Also if you had to copy between files between
> > multiple directories...isn't there a lot of "typing" going on?
>
>
> To answer your questions
>
> 1. All the source files would be open in emacs, likely split screen.
>
> 2. All pdf's would be open in different instances of xpdf in a "stack" of
> windows to the side of emacs. Same for firefox, e-mail, etc if it relates to
> coding.
>
> 3. I usually have a couple terminals open, for any number of reasons; and
> navigate the filesystem with "cd f<TAB>sc<TAB>", "cd -", etc. Terminals are
> good for more than just navigation since they can be running make, gdb,
> tcpdump, git, etc...
>
> 4. To copy files, use "cp" mixed with "ls", "find", "grep", "xargs", and
> bash commands when useful.
> Example, $find ~/music | egrep -i 'beatles|nirvana' | grep -i 'mp3$' | xargs
> -i mv -n {} ~/favorite_tunes
>

Interesting.
 
>
> > isn't there a lot of "typing" going on?
>
> Er, not really. How much effort would it be to find and consolidate every
> beatles and nirvana song in a huge directory structure via tuxcmd?

You're right about that. I gotta learn use xargs.

Thanks for the reply!
Received on Fri Mar 13 2009 - 07:05:34 UTC