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w3m renders HTML tables better. Or at least it used to, when I was setting up my mailcap a long time ago.

For interactive terminal web browsing I prefer links/elinks (again, compared to lynx/w3m a long time ago).

I miss the world clock too :(

I wonder how hard it would be to write an extension.

There's a switch to turn that off in gnome-tweak-tool.

You get split Nautilus windows in GNOME the same way you get split anything windows: tile the window to the left (Super+Left or drag window until mouse touches the left screen edge), open new Nautilus window, tile it to the right (Super+Right or draw window until mouse touches the right screen edge). Presto.

You need to wrap the escapes in \[ \] to tell bash (actually readline) that these characters do not advance the cursor when printed.

This makes Alt-Backspace do the same thing as Ctrl-W, which is delete-everything-until-the-next-space. I'm missing the delete-last-segment-of-the-path function.

Edit: I know I can customize the word style using $WORDCHARS, or 'autoload select-word-style'; my problem is that I'm used to having the capability to use two different word styles at once.

I'm looking through the command list in zshzle(1), and I'm a bit confused about the differences between backward-delete-word and backward-kill-word. Some short experiments I did failed to notice any differences (foo/bar/baz M-x backward-delete-word deletes foo/bar/baz). There's also vi-backward-kill-word which deletes 'baz', then '/', then 'bar', then '/', then 'foo'. I want a key to delete 'baz', then 'bar/', then 'foo', and I've no idea how to get it...

I tried, for a week, got very frustrated and switched back.

The little itch that drove me crazy was command-line editing: in bash (and all readline apps) when I have

   command long/path/to/some/file

I can press Alt-Backspace to delete 'file', or I can press Ctrl-W to delete 'long/path/to/some/file'.

I tried various hacks to make zsh do the same, then gave up.

Personally I do not use virtualenv activation. Instead I prefer to explicitly launch Python and/or scripts with bin/python, bin/scriptname etc., either with my current working directory in the virtualenv, or by creating a symlink ./bin -> .virtualenv/bin in the project root.

I added a newline (\n) to the beginning of my prompt. This way I never lose program output -- and also it's easier to see where previous commands begin and end in the scrollback buffer.

You can't really do sums of top columns, because some memory is shared and you'll end up double-counting it.

And you can't just subtract the shared memory numbers, because different sets of pages are shared between different sets of processes, and top doesn't give enough information to figure out what's actually happening where.

Running the pmaps tool on all pids and summing the Pss number is perhaps the closest you can get to the actual memory use.

While more powerful, atop is rather confusing. htop is friendly.

RSS also includes shared memory pages (those that are currently resident).

I can hit ZZ faster than ctrl-x ctrl-s ;)

> As a digraph they never occur in a natural language

I wonder how Dijkstra would react to that statement.