Tips

A collection of things I've learned that I think others might like to know, but aren't big enough to fill a whole page all their own.

General

In Blender, F3 will open a command palette.

C programming language

Programs

General

You can double click to select a full word in most GUI applications — but it turns out if you keep the mouse held after the second click, and drag, you can make a larger selection that still only contains full words.

yt-dlp

mpv

Vim

GDB

Firefox

# Custom search engines

In Firefox, you can right click the URL bar for many websites to add their search page. This can then be set as the default, or given a custom shortcut under Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts, so that by typing @foobar<Tab> in the navigation bar you can search that website. For example, I have search shortcuts for the following:

For sites this doesn't work on, there's an extension:

# Bookmark shortcuts