Tag Archives: Productivity

Navigating the Directory Stack in ‘bash’

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on February 20, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time jumping from project to project in a Linux shell.  I find that I have to switch back and forth between directories.  The bash shell has commands to maintain a stack of directories.  I’ve written some functions that use these utilities to make directory navigation easier. [...]

Why Text Editors Matter

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on January 26, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
The emacs editor
A good editor is a very flexible tool. Once you become an expert at it, you can use it to accomplish tasks almost as quickly as you can think of them.