I hope this does not come across as an attempt to spark conversation purely for the sake of doing so. I use vim a great deal (5-10 hours a day) and I noticed my left wrist is the first to start a...

I'm looking at various laptops for one to program on while traveling and I found this one: the Asus Flip Chromebook: It's already hard to find sub-15" laptops with a Del/PgUp/PgDn/End row which ...

git add --patch provides a great interface for reviewing unstaged changes and then staging only the ones that are wanted in the next commit. Great, except for one thing: there is no obvious way to...

I have wrist pain when I type and I would like to start writing SQL statements, stored procedure, and views using speech recognition.

Longtime vim users, do you keep your fingers onjkl; or hjkl in normal mode? Standard touch typing teaches us the home position for the right hand has the index finger on the j key, so your f...

My server info: CPU:Intel Xeon E5-2630 Memory:65970676K OS:Centos 6.4 kernel:3.8.0 jdk: HotSpot JDK 1.6.0.27 I use jmap -heap pid to print heap info: Heap Configuration: MinHeapFreeRatio = 40...

Well the docs finally said it, I need to take it easy on my wrist for a few months. Being that I'm a .NET Developer this could end my livelihood for a little while, something I'm not anxious ...

For emacs users out there, what are your recommended keyboards? Bonus points for keyboards that: Have no capslock key. Instead, a control key in that position. Alt keys that are closer to th...

When used in uxterm zsh is jumping words when I press ctrl+left and ctrl+right. When used in plain unconfigured byobu (tmux backend) it is not. The cursor sits there doing nothing. I can however a...

I always suffered from RSI in my left wrist (see here) and I thought it was because of the twisting motion associated with hitting the ctrl and shift keys. Therefore, I went ahead and bought an Adv...

Well, I am not using Dvorak actually but Neo2, but as I am using a matrix type keyboard (Truly Ergonomic) I have also shifted the numbers. Therefore this construction in my xmonad.hs does not work...

I am just beginning on emacs, and have just completed the tutorial. As a longtime Windows user (I am running emacs on Win7), the shortcuts do feel unintuitive, however I had expected that and...

The company I work for are currently undergoing a site wide renovation and I'm involved in the 'consultation' on what the R&D work spaces are going to be like. There is no scope for indi...

I use a MacBook, but I've got a usual keyboard attached to it. The problem is that the keys don't exactly map 1-to-1. One thing is the APPLE and ALT keys. They map to WIN and ALT, but they a...