Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "A Vid in which Vim Saves Me Hours u0026 Hundreds of Clicks" video.

  1. 1:31 pdfinfo (part of the poppler-utils package) will show info about PDF files such as titles. But these don’t always match the text you see on the title page of the document.
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  2. 5:05 Can you not use uparrow to bring back previous items in the command history? You can in Emacs.
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  3. 2:17 I defined a custom “make-shell-buffer” command in my Emacs prefs https://github.com/ldo/emacs-prefs which gives me an interactive window where I can execute arbitrary shell commands and get back their output as editable text in the buffer.
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  4. Like I said, my condolences.
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  5. 7:55 Emacs has built-in online help, available from CTRL-H. For example, CTRL-H followed by A is “apropos”, where you can find relevant functions by keyword, CTRL-H C lets you get information about key bindings, etc.
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  6. Not necessarily accurate -- see my comment on pdfinfo.
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  7. Not necessarily accurate -- see my comment on pdfinfo.
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  8. AppleScript ... my condolences. (I used to be a fan of it back in the 1990s.)
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  9. After doing it for some years, I came to the conclusion that trying to script GUI apps is a waste of time. The Linux approach is to provide the command-line functionality, then put the GUI as a separate layer on top of that. If you want to automate functions, you skip the GUI and do it at the command line. Much more efficient and reliable, with much less stuffing around.
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  10. Most of the ones on Linux are.
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  11. Any equivalent to “apropos”?
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