I often have multiple terminals open and screen running in each one. I then try to group all my work for a particular project in that terminal. While I am trying to limit the amount of multitasking and concentrate on one thing at a time, I might leave a terminal/screen session up for days and when I come back I can jump right back where I started.
We’ll after neglecting this blog for quite some time, I’m now back. I had to swap my laptop during the summer, and I decided to give one of the MacBook Pros a try. So I’ll be adding Perl on the Mac and the Mac in general to the topics covered here. My first dilemma with the new Mac was which perl to use.
When vim is shutdowns abnormally it leaves a bunch of .swp files
around.1 Given the way I program (very iterative and test focused)
those backups are rarely more current than the saved file. A great time saver
to help with recovery is the vim DiffOrig command. After learning
about it on StackOverflow,
I put together the following bash script to find any swap files under the
current directory, open each in vim, run DiffOrig and prompt to delete after
you close vim.