Productivity tips & tricks

for a developer

Sebastian Witowski

dotfiles

.bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig

alias ..="cd .."
alias ...="cd ../.."
alias ....="cd ../../.."

alias ll='ls -al'

alias g="git"
alias ga="git add"
alias gb="git branch"
alias gci="git commit"

alias prod1='ssh cds-wn-01'
alias prod2='ssh cds-wn-02'

alias chown='chown --preserve-root'
                    

dotfiles

.bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig

syntax enable       " enable syntax processing
set number          " display line numbers
set showcmd         " show command in bottom bar
set showmatch       " higlight matching parenthesis
set history=1000    " store lots of :cmdline history
set incsearch       " search as characters are entered

" Allow saving of files as sudo
command W w !sudo tee % > /dev/null

" Pressing s will toggle and untoggle spell checking
map s :setlocal spell!

dotfiles

.bashrc, .vimrc, .gitconfig

[alias]
    ci = commit
    co = checkout
    d = diff
    l = log

    # Squash last N commits together
    squash = "!f(){ git reset --soft HEAD~${1} && git commit --edit -m\"$(git log --format=%B --reverse HEAD..HEAD@{1})\"; };f"

    # Checkout a PR (usage: git copr 1234)
    copr = "!f() { git fetch -fu ${2:-origin} refs/pull/$1/head:pr/$1 && git checkout pr/$1; }; f"

    # Merge GitHub pull request on top of the `master` branch
    ...
                    

vim

" Map leader key to space
let mapleader = "\"

IPython

Execute some code each time you start IPython

....
c.InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines = [
    'from invenio.search_engine import perform_request_search',
    'from invenio.bibformat_engine import BibFormatObject'
]

Text expanders

What are your tricks?