Emacs tip of the day: (setq scroll-preserve-screen-position 'always) will ensure that M-v always undoes C-v, so you can go back exactly.
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I would *love* a terminal emulator that treated each command as an atomic unit, so I can efficiently scroll between them.
Line-based scrolling is annoying when you've just run a command that output 1,000 lines.
Do any such tools exist?
Today I learnt that a continually blinking caps lock on Linux signifies a kernel panic: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3840/the-caps-lock-and-scroll-lock-lights-are-flashing-and-everything-is-frozen
(On the plus side, it's the first time I've encountered this despite using Linux for years.)
I've often found reading diffs tricky when I have to scroll up to see what file I'm in, then back down to the changes I'm interested in.
In difftastic, I'm experimenting with printing the file name on every hunk displayed.
