Here you can find the cream editor. This is basically vim editor with lots of customizations thus making it simpler for the users to use the editor directly.
This version already has the bash and perl support plugins and thus you can start using them as IDE without the need to add any plugins. It has a simple and advanced mode. In the simple mode you need not worry about all the modes of the vi/vim editor. How cool is that 🙂
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Here are some pretty good links on the subject. Since there are already so many blog posts, does not make sense to add one more 🙂
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/c816.html
http://www.gilesorr.com/bashprompt/prompts/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84386
Bash themes – http://onlamp.com/onlamp/2006/02/02/bash_themes.html
Well, if you are a professional who has to keep referring to RFC, then you know how good it would be to have the RFC downloaded and kept in your computer. But then unless you can search it and use and editor with it, its of not much use. So, here is something that you can do :
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Here is a nice link on BASH History Expansion. There are lot of examples in this page and some of them might be quite useful. But here are my list of favourites:
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This is probably the most used one by me. This will repeat the last command. And this works even in conjunction with other commands like
Continue readingHere are one sql script that I found some time back. This will be listing the top 5 SQL queries in Oracle.
SET linesize 300
SET PAGESIZE 200
select *
from
(select sql_text,
sql_id,
elapsed_time,
cpu_time,
user_io_wait_time
from sys.v_$sqlarea
order by 5 desc)
where rownum < 6;
quit;
If you ever wondered what combination of some colors would look like but did not really feel like setting them in your xterm just to check them out. Or if you wanted to know about all the colors on you X window system then you can install this utility called xcolorsel.
][1]You will need to setup the rpm-shere repo for this.
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