Shell

ShellCheck is a static analysis tool for shell scripts. Shell scripting isn’t necessarily difficult, but the syntax is hard to get the hang of, particularly if you rarely write shell scripts. ShellCheck is a Haskell program that runs through your scripts and provides warnings and suggestions for…

Oz Tiram sent in v which is like z for Vim:

v uses viminfo’s list of recently edited files to open one quickly no
matter where you are in the filesystem.

He found it through this blog post: v: Re-edit files quickly with vim

fzf: Fuzzy Finder for the Shell

fzf by Junegunn Choi is a ctrlp.vim-inspired Ruby script that allows you to find shell commands with a…

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vim-pipe

vim-pipe (GitHub: krisajenkins / vim-pipe) by Kris Jenkins helps improve workflow by allowing a buffer to…

When I saw Tim Pope’s excellent vim-afterimage script, it reminded me that Vim is completely capable as a binary file editor. Opening a file with -b or running :set binary makes Vim more suitable for editing binary files:

• textwidth and wrapmargin are…