Terminal

The linux terminal is your lifeblood. There are so many - TOO MANY - options. I'll gather a few of my favorite things here.

Host-specific color and banner

This is mucho importante to quickly tell which machine you are on:

use figlet and jp2a to create ascii art
update ~/.bashrc to echo the ascii art in a host-specific color, and to persist that color in the prompt
make sure to include an interactive check to avoid the banner if not interactive

See the many examples of .bashrc in the config repo.

Keyboard-driven copy-paste

HOW DID I LIVE SO LONG WITHOUT THIS! You can do keyboard-driven copy-paste from terminal buffer using screen!

Ctrl-A-esc to get into buffer navigation mode
space to mark the start of the copy buffer (non-column)
space to mark the end of the copy buffer
then you can use Ctrl-A-] to paste - wait, wut? useless... what about X buffer?
- add this to "your screen .rc file" to send buffer to X clipboard too!

bindkey -m ' ' eval 'stuff \040' 'writebuf' 'exec sh -c "/usr/bin/pbcopy < /tmp/screen-exchange"'

Always use screen when ssh'ing

Best to accomplish this with a script. This will also allow us to provide host-specific background graphics and profile colors, sweeeeet!

   mah-haus-provided ssh commands!
       mh bitpost {screenname}
           save term background/profile
           change term background/profile - with host pic in upper right!!
           use this script to ssh bitpost:
               https://stackoverflow.com/a/1075956/717274
               also:
                   On my Ubuntu system (10.4) I had to modify the regular expression to account for the date/time info it prints next to each session.
                   if(/^\s*(\d+)\.(\S+)\s+(([^)]*))\s+(([^)‌]*))/) { ($num, $tag, $status) = ($1, $2, $4); –
               or:
                   ssh -t [email protected] /usr/bin/screen -xRR
                   -t is needed to force terminal creation (even tho sending a command)
                   -x
                   -R restore existing or create if none
                   # see MY screen settings with at to see what i really want

               better to let screen do the ssh?
                  screen -S 1-9 -p 0 -X screen -t Remote ssh 19

           reset term background/profile

Drop a dead ssh session

Remember this one to drop a dead ssh session!

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