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J. David Blackstone has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and nine years of experience at a wireless telecommunications company, where he learned Perl and never looked back. J. David has an advantage in that he works really hard, he has a passion for writing good software, and he knows many of the world's best Perl programmers.

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Tuesday July 11, 2006

03:30 PM

Saving my fingers by replacing xterm

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Is there any good alternative to xterm that will let me save typing by defining some kind of shortcuts or macros for things I commonly type. (Yes, the shell could help a bit with this, but sometimes these are things I commonly type in vi or something else.)

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bashrc (Score:1)

by cyclist38 (5400)

in .bashrc use alias something='else'

alias recal="history | grep" instead of history | grep something all the time

you can also use bash-completion to enable tab completion on the command line for directories, filenames, apps and such
Re: Saving my fingers by replacing xterm (Score:1)

by bluto (225)

Do you already use a "kitchen sink" shell (e.g. bash, zsh, etc)? I use zsh and find that much of the stuff I need to type is available through tab completion (e.g. commands, pathname components, switch names, etc). If that doesn't work then chances are good I've already typed it at some point and can find and edit it by interactively searching through my massive history file with ctrl-r (with emacs bindings that is, not sure how to do that with vi bindings).
I'm pretty sure there are even ways of redefinin
- Re: Saving my fingers by replacing xterm (Score:1)
  
  by parv (6865)
  
  In zsh 4.x, '/' is what i use for history search in vi mode. (It could be just 'Ctrl-R' w/ various options would have worked and i had changed my bindings.) In bash 3 here, vi mode again, both 'Ctrl-R' & '/' start reverse-i-search.
  
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  - parv
- Re: Saving my fingers by replacing xterm (Score:1)
  
  by rats (5689)
  
  Have you looked at MultiGnomeTerminal? It allows you to program your function keys with all sorts of useful strings.
  - Re: Saving my fingers by replacing xterm (Score:2)
    
    by jdavidb (1361)
    
    Thank you! From your description that sounds like the solution I am looking for. Everybody else seems to be offering solutions that will help me only in the shell or only in my editor. (And I was to the point of weighing the cost of learning two or more systems for shortcuts versus the cost of learning the source code for xterm so I could hack in the features I wanted. Which is not a good comparison to be making... :) )
    
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    J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Use Vim (Score:2)

by Dom2 (2981)

In vi (or vim), use abbr in the config file (~/.exrc or ~/.vimrc).

abbr FOO Federation Of OrangUtans

Now, every time you type in "FOO ", it gets expanded automatically.
-Dom