15 june 2021
So big news first- we've switched over to using vim successfully! Still getting used to having to enter insert mode instead of just typing but otherwise really liking it now that we've figured out basic commands. Can see why some people diss nano now. Nothing wrong with it honestly and it's still a great editor but we can see the extensibility of vim and the ability to hit fewer keys (no Ctrl key). Vim's downside is weird keybinds tbh, but they do start making some sense after you stare at them for a bit. We wrote a quick reference for ourselves that we can use on the command line that we should really port over to tilde.town. Will do that after we finish typing this out.
Also took the chance to make a basic notetaking utility for ourselves with a few simple BASH functions. Working well, though we'll have problems down the road with the notereading utility if we don't figure out how to implement a dialogue that lets the user pick between the files grep finds rather than spitting out the first result into less like it does now. There's definitely a way to do it, just haven't learned it yet. Something to figure out! If anyone here knows a way we could pipe filenames from grep into something that structures them into a dialogue that the user selects from, where the chosen file is piped into less, let us know. We're missing that middle utility. If we know what we should use, we can do the rest. We'll port it over to tilde when that's fixed, though feels does basically the same thing with a nicer interface. Wonder if we could get a peek under the hood of feels somehow? Would love to see the code. Maybe we should ask about it in the bbj thread for town questions. Get the feeling it could be useful for the note utility if we see how someone else did something similar. Kind of proud though, managed to make a nice search utility using find and learned more about it. Has a pretty good manpage and way more options than we knew about. There are options for time of last edit, whether the file is empty, who owns the file, case-sensitivity, you name it. It's cool.
Lifewise, finished up finals for the most part today. Painting might throw a loop and add one more discussion so we'll keep checking, but everything else should be done and good to go. That's some stress off our back. Now we get to stress about not doing enough with our free time and feel guilty for resting and relaxing. Still working on not doing that :'D Been a quiet brain day. Kaz piped up once or twice but that's been about it. I think we're all just tired and need a break to recharge. It's that, or we need to deal with something again to get the brain up and running. Sometimes we have to suffer a little with brain hell to feel okay, which is hard to describe if you don't experience it. If you know, you know.
Anyways, off to eat dinner, add to the "things learned" part of our site, and port over the vim reference sheet! Maybe find a way to make feels wrap properly too.