The small linux problem thread

ChrisLifts · August 12, 2020, 1:54pm

My team wants to follow absurd standards for development. I use vim and found a pretty good way to do this.

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set shiftwidth=8
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set tabstop=8

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.rb,*.py set shiftwidth=2
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.rb,*.py set tabstop=2

Everything else is 4 spaces by default in the global settings – Rust, Bash, JS, etc.

Full settings for anyone interested:

filetype plugin indent on

set expandtab
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set shiftwidth=8
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set tabstop=8

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.rb,*.py set shiftwidth=2
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.rb,*.py set tabstop=2


set number
syntax enable

SgtAwesomesauce · August 12, 2020, 4:53pm

wait what?

They want 8 wide go files but 2 wide python and ruby?

They’re clearly on meth, stay away.

ChrisLifts · August 12, 2020, 4:55pm

Google/Golang standards, PEP8 standards (), and I guess all the Rails twinks used two spaces back when Ruby was the new hotness so they want to do that. Most people on my team come from a Ruby background. One guy is from game dev/C++. I’m from systems and networking.

My eyes bleed resisting to soap box every single day.

SgtAwesomesauce · August 12, 2020, 4:57pm

8 has a good justification.

There is no justification for 2 spaces.

Unless you’re a shit programmer.

ChrisLifts · August 12, 2020, 4:57pm

“I have to use a sticky note to see where the indentations are”

Really? REALLY? Your fucking $500 a year IDE doesn’t tell you what space you’re at or where the indents are?

I’m not mad at you, or mad at all. I’m just

fuming

nx2l · August 12, 2020, 5:01pm

have you tried

sudo tmux

SgtAwesomesauce · August 12, 2020, 5:03pm

I’m of the opinion that 4 space tabs is is ideal, 8 is acceptable for boomers who can’t see well and more over, 2 spaces just makes it very difficult to see where things are.

ChrisLifts · August 12, 2020, 5:07pm

Every job I’ve had I used four spaces. Unless they specifically asked for something else. But my whole life I’ve used four spaces: Java, JavaScript, C, C++, Go, Rust, Bash, VisualBasic6, PowerShell, Pascal…

I don’t get why Rob Pike decided to do 8 spaces, unless they just thought it was funny. Vim defaults to 6 so that would have made more sense.

ChrisLifts · August 12, 2020, 5:13pm

@SgtAwesomesauce Maybe it’s because Golang was the 8th successful project at Google

I’ll see myself out

SgtAwesomesauce · August 12, 2020, 5:14pm

what?

that’s not base 2

ChrisLifts · August 12, 2020, 5:15pm

Oh weird, it is eight. I thought it was six. Maybe it was prior to version 8.x?

SgtAwesomesauce · August 12, 2020, 5:17pm

No idea dude, 6 spaces would be about as dumb as 3 spaces.

ChrisLifts · August 12, 2020, 5:18pm

Maybe it’s always been that way. My whole life is proving to be a lie.

SgtAwesomesauce · August 12, 2020, 5:21pm

That’s been my 2020 as well.

oO.o · August 12, 2020, 7:05pm

The sudo thing is resolved, or do you mean to capture the exit code?

oO.o · August 12, 2020, 7:09pm

ChrisLifts:

My team wants to follow absurd standards for development. I use vim and found a pretty good way to do this.
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set shiftwidth=8
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set tabstop=8

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.rb,*.py set shiftwidth=2
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.rb,*.py set tabstop=2
Everything else is 4 spaces by default in the global settings – Rust, Bash, JS, etc.

Full settings for anyone interested:
filetype plugin indent on

set expandtab
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set shiftwidth=8
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.go set tabstop=8

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.rb,*.py set shiftwidth=2
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.rb,*.py set tabstop=2


set number
syntax enable

Might be a good addition to your defaults if there are more complicated cases where you need to change tab/indent behavior.

Also, I use 2-space indent for shell scripts (sorry sgt).

ChrisLifts · August 12, 2020, 7:19pm

Lmao

RE: vim-sleuth

Nice, if this becomes a burden to maintain I’ll look into that.

I love tpope’s stuff. I use vim-surround and vim-fugitive

nx2l · August 12, 2020, 7:58pm

oO.o · August 13, 2020, 5:29pm

Is it not possible to map Control + Escape in tmux? Trying to make it more vim-like. C-Escape, C-Esc, etc say it’s not a valid key.

I just made a mapping in the terminal emulator instead.

New tmux issue…

When I bind a key for next-window it says No next window but when I actually enter the command next-window it works… (same with previous-window).

And this seems to only happen with my particular binding (left and right arrows). If I use the defaults it works.

Donk · August 14, 2020, 3:31am

I’m bumping my head against the wall with something that should be so simple.

I want to make some encrypted 7z archives, so I can upload them to google drive for backup.
I don’t care about compression, since the gain are so small, and the added time to create the archive are so huge.

But gnomes built in file roller has no option for compression level when creating the archive. I googled about and installed the dconf-editor, and found the place to set the default compression level.

But all the guides says to set the level to maximum, for storing with no compression. Which goes completely against my own logic when I want zero compression.

But testing with an .mkv file, the cpu is pinned at 100% on both very fast and maximum. So it doesn’t make a difference anyway…

I’ve also tried out peazip, it has the option to store files, and it’s pretty much at regular copy-paste speed, which the “store option” should be.
But every time it finishes making an archive, it spits out an error. It stops at 99% with error 127: Cannot execute requested operation. None of my googling have revealed an answer to that problem.
So I can’t trust it, since it can’t complete its job without an error.

Man I miss Winrar…

So, is there some way to set file roller default compression to zero compression?