I'll only bother to mention here what utilities/applications I use that might be considered unusual, as repeating the same set of browsers / chat clients / DCVS tools ad infinitum would likely become tedious. Without further preamble, I think the following might be worth mentioning:
* WM: a forked dwm-5.3.1 (I altered it slightly to allow process management and on-the-fly reloading.) * Shell: rc or bash, depending on whether I'm working heavily with scripting or interactive use. * File Manager: I've come to prefer the shell. * Text Editor: vile. I prefer the statically compiled lexers for syntax highlighting as it means that I never have to contend with the limited context and broken highlighting caused by starting vim at a line in the middle of a large function. The binary is still smaller than vim, @ 1.4MB with all of the filters compiled in, and there's few configuration files to load. * TODO/Bug tracking/Notes: I keep track of my Todo list and other info with a 1.3KLOC (C++) utility I wrote to handle tagged notes from the command line. Maybe I'll get around to writing up a readme and releasing it soon. * Compilers: GCC/G++/Gambit-C (scheme). Brendan MacDonell
