bubstance

…no, I definitely meant dmenu. sandy has keybindings that bring up (by default) various dmenu prompts as a substitute for the usual “command mode”.

: or M-x to bring up a command prompt, C-\ for a “pipe to” prompt, M-\ for a sed prompt… you get the idea.

st is just the suckless terminal emulator; sandy can be run from any terminal emulator.

I’ll give you six that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

• sim and vis, both of which focus on combining vim motions with structural regular expressions as used in…

• sam and acme from Plan 9, both of which are included in Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port). sam also has a modified/expanded version in the form of deadpixi/sam, while acme has spin-offs like a port to Go and a standalone version.

• mg, one of the three default text editors included with OpenBSD (the others being vi and ed).

• sandy, the abandoned suckless text editor. It uses dmenu and is fun to mess with for shits and giggles.

A different way to do the usual ..="cd .." and endless chains of ...="cd ../.." types of aliases:

bash/ksh version:

..() {
    local count="${1:-1}"
    local path="../"
    while (( --count > 0 )); do
        path="$path../"
    done
    cd -- "$path"
}

zsh single-line version:

..() { cd $(printf "../%.s" {1..${1:-1}}) }

These take the number of directories that you want to move up as an argument (e.g. .. 3), otherwise they move you up one directory when used with no arguments.

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