Tips and Tricks.md

Getting Plugged in: Shortcuts for Productivity

** Disclaimer: Use whatever works for you **

OS X Productivity

• Launchers: Quicksilver (my favorite), Alfred, Flashlight (does more, but slower)
• Hyperswitch + Totalspaces: Tools for managing OSX Spaces & Application windows
• Divvy: Window management (Free alternative: Spectacle)
• Karabiner: Increase your key repeat time
• Rebind Caps Lock to Escape when tapped, control when held
• Flux: Automatically blue-blocks your screen at night to be easy on the eyes
• Evernote or Simplenote:

Terminal

• Setting up a Bash Profile
• Bash Alternatives: Zshell (Oh My Zsh), and Fish (Oh My Fish)

Editors

Atom:

• The Command Pallette is your friend ('command + shift + p')
• Command + T for FuzzyFinder
• Command + \ toggles File Navbar
• My favorite plugins ('command + ,' then click 'install'):
  • Seeing Is Believing (see how your Ruby code is working)
  • Highlight Selected (show other occurrances of a word)
  • Javascript Language JSX: better syntax highlighting of JavaScript
  • Linter / JSHint: find those missing semicolons
  • Script: Run code from within Atom)
  • Theme: Material + Seti
  • Emmett: Awesome tool for writing HTML quickly
• How to make a custom snippet: 'Atom' -> 'Open Your Snippits'
  • Ex: To type 'Pry' to get 'require 'pry'; binding.pry':

  '.source.ruby':
  'pry':
   'prefix': 'pry'
   'body': 'require "pry"; binding.pry'
  

Sublime:

• How to install the package manager
• How to make Snippets: Tools -> New Snippet -> save with the suffix ".sublime-snippet" Example: Type 'pry' + tab to insert a binding.pry:

<snippet>
  <content><![CDATA[
require 'pry'; binding.pry
]]></content>
  <tabTrigger>pry</tabTrigger>
  <scope>source.ruby</scope>
</snippet>

• Go To Definition: f12
• Simple Fullscreen (must be set to true in your keybindings, see below): Command + control + f
• Some of my Favorite Plugins:
  • Advanced New File: Allows a binding to create a new file quickly
  • SidebarEnhancements
  • SublimeLinter
  • AllAutocomplete: Autocomplete words across all open files
  • ChainOfCommand + Focus File on Sidebar: Allows you to bind a key to open the file tree and highlight the current file
  • Emmett: Awesome tool for writing HTML quickly
  • JavaScriptNext: Better JS Syntax highlighting
  • VAlign: automatically line up variables, etc
  • SublimeCodeIntel
• Themes: Elementary: Oceanic Next, SpaceGrey, Cobalt2 (ui)
• How to search for your own:

1. Command Palette: command + shift + p
2. Type "Install Package" to search for various packages, snippets, etc.

Vim Mode

Shameless plug / why I don't just use Vim

Sublime

• Vintageous (in the package manager), +
  • Vintageous Surround: Surround highlighted text with brackets, quotes, etc. (This must be manually installed. Click here and scroll down to 'add a repository'
  • Vintageous Oragami: Split / pane management
  • BlockCursorEverywhere
• EasyMotion: Jump anywhere on the screen with a few buttons (I have this bound to control + space, followed by the letter)
• My Keybindings
• My Settings

Atom

• Vim-mode + vim-surround