FZF and Autojump: my favorite Linux utilities

[@monkeyrater]

You mentioned you use zsh, that would be awesome if you could do a zsh tutorial series. All the tutorials on zsh on youtube are not very good and more just quick overviews. zsh requires a lot of configuration to make it work, by default almost nothing is activated which is why a lot of people try zsh and leave it thinking it doesnt do anything. The problem with oh-my-zsh is each theme has different things activated so its a roll of the dice to see what you get. I personally use fish, I think fish is better but it doesnt try to stay backward compatible with bash/sh so I doubt its ever going to take off. There is a shell called ion written in Rust that tries to emulate Powershell functionality, Im wondering if youve tried that.

[@ChrisCox-wv7oo]

I didn't know about Ctrl t with fzf, I usually do ** for the same functionality. Ctrl t is the way to go though. Thanks!

[@mochammadhusnirizal235]

was looking to speed up my workflow with autojump and now I learn more about fzf, cool! Thanks!

[@johncrwarner]

fzf was in my Manjaro distribution already - but it might be loaded with something else but useful to know,

[@jakubbartczuk3956]

What's inhuman is this video's usefulness. Thanks man!

[@JackofSome]

Thank you for your kind words.

[@hdluktv3593]

fzf is just amazing! thanks for the suggestion

[@JasonRigden]

My mind is blown. You've got a new subscriber. Thanks!!!!

[@BaBuBank]

Awesome, can you please share a bit about the i3 along with xfce ? How did you do the setup ? Thanks Jack.

[@JackofSome]

Pretty much this: feeblenerd.blogspot.com/2015/11/pretty-i3-with-xfce.html I'll do a video in the future about my setup.

[@genkiferal7178]

@@JackofSome if you use xfce or xfwm, it makes more sense to set your windows the size you want, then, every time you reboot, open your apps in a certain order and they'll be in the position and **shape** you want. I think tiling window managers can leave a lot of wasted white space, but sizing things yourself - and using workspaces and minimizing or rolling up windows - allows you to have more windows per screen. Editors, for example, that are long and narrow make it easier to read and there will be far less margin, less wasted space. If you use tmux with a certain plugin, you can have many panes in the size and position you want and can quickly get them open each reboot. Using tmux with micro and ranger means you can open far more stuff using less resouorces and because it is all in one window (or more if you choose,) it *all* can be minimized or sent to another workspace quickly.

[@codychan4992]

If you like autojump, check out z.lua(github.com/skywind3000/z.lua), I'm using both z.lua and fzf.

[@TheGruselmops]

Very helpful, thanks a lot!

[@Donaarr]

Great videos. Let us know if you ever decide to setup a Patreon or something like that. I get a lot of value from your videos. I have been using Spacemacs (coming from vim) for about two years, and I still feel I don't know very much. 😕

[@JackofSome]

Thank you for the kind words. I wanna get the channel to at least 5k subs and be publishing regularly and reliably before I think about monetization. It's definitely in the cards tho

[@unperrier5998]

FYI don't type clear, just hit Ctr+L

[@mystisification]

Me, watching from the Windows™, sad because I can't use it :(

[@JackofSome]

WSL?

[@JustSomeAussie1]

@@mystisification It literally takes like 5 minutes to install a distro under WSL from the microsoft store, and it doesn't mess with your windows installation.

[@mystisification]

@@JustSomeAussie1 Yeah I know, I already use WSL2 but trying to have a GUI with emacs, good connection with output and all the good stuff in one place is a nightmare. Also, experimental and unstable

[@JustSomeAussie1]

@@mystisification Why don't you set up dual boot?

[@mystisification]

@@JustSomeAussie1 Did that too but passing data between the OS'es is surprisingly annoying and I still need Windows for the usual Office related stuff

[@earltan739]

So Basically Zsh:OhmyZsh?

[@JackofSome]

No. That's a different animal (though it has a plugin for autojump which is nice).

[@earltan739]

@@JackofSome Yeah that's, what I use. though the autojump key is 'z' for OhMyZsh