Would you like to share some Debian tips that made a significant impact to your productivity in 2016? Things that you wish you had known earlier.
Here are my top two. 1) Zim I found it useful for organizing thoughts, making todo lists, creating documentation especially when working on multiple projects with many task holders. The software can be installed by apt-get install zim. 2) Searching command line history using glob patterns Basically, when reverse searching the command history using ctrl-r, you can use glob expressions in the search by adding the following lines to zshrc. # Use glob patterns when using ctrl-r # ctrl-r wordA*wordB # will match commands where wordA is followed by wordB with zero or more number # of characters in between. This functionality is not available in old zsh # versions (ex:- 4.2.6) so check for its availability. zle -al | grep -q history-incremental-pattern-search-backward if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then bindkey "\C-r" history-incremental-pattern-search-backward fi Once done, ctrl-r sudo*apt*update will bring up "sudo apt-get install update" if such a command already exists in the history. AFAIK only zsh has this functionality. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog