Make the zsh zle handle "words" correctly

Snippet from my .zshrc:

# This controls what the line editor considers a word. By default it
# includes '/', which makes it so that when I M-del (attempting to erase
# a directory in a path), I erase the whole path. Annoying.
# WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=/&;!#$%^(){}<>' # (default)
WORDCHARS='*?_-.[]~=&;!#$%^(){}<>'`

After living with this for a ...

Moving to zsh

To get started:

  1. sudo aptitude install zsh
  2. chsh /bin/zsh

That's pretty simple.

Of course, you're not running zsh yet... either logout and log back in or just run zsh at the prompt. You'll get a series of prompts to configure a .zshrc. It only takes a ...

9 "Must-Have" Tools for Software Teams

The items below are useful systems based on my experience working with a bunch of different software teams at a handful of companies over the past decade-plus. I haven't bothered to list things like compilers, interpreters, libraries, etc. If you don't have those, you aren't making software ...

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