brian hefele's untidy space: tech

dvtm and the mouse

brian hefele — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:17:00 +0200

I've gotten quite a few hits from people searching for things like 'dvtm pass mouse.' I don't have much to say on the matter, except that this is the one thing that really bugs me about dvtm. As I have mentioned previously, given the choice between screen, tmux, and dvtm, I like dvtm the best. It is certainly the simplest, and has the smallest footprint. It automatically configures spaces, and makes notions of simultasking as simple as double-clicking. I would say that it brings the best of the GUI experience to terminal multiplexing, while still keeping true to the command line.

On smartenter and fish

brian hefele — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:57:33 +0200

I've been busy with a number of (unfortunately more important) things, and haven't really put much effort into z in the past few days. I did put a bit more thought into smartenter, however, and have come to the conclusion that I must put it on hold for now. As much as I would like to polish it up, one thing stands in my way that would make z a better investment in my time - command history. If I code z correctly, it should be able to behave much like smartenter does now, but I probably still won't make much use of it.

Job Control, Piece Two

brian hefele — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:00:52 +0200

If you haven't already, it's probably a good idea to read my previous post. The plan, of course, was to work on z, my shell script to assist me with multitasking and Unix job control. I am working on z, but while I was spending a lot of time thinking about z, I was spending just as much time implementing something additional. Two additional things, to be exact.