Tom's Tools

Tools for posting:

In a FaceBook posting today (2017 May 08) people people were asking if Pence had actually said something rather awful. It turns out he almost certainly had not ( http://www.snopes.com/mike-pence-jesus-care/). To find out, one needs to just type part of the statement into google with quote marks. However, this is a bit of effort. I have a couple tools that make it easier. Download these Mac (and maybe Linux) tools and put them on your desktop (or, as I do, put them into a script directory and make a link to them from your desktop). Double click on them to activate. Voila!

https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/gose This tool does a google search of whatever is in your cut/paste buffer.

https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/fb This tool captures the cut/paste buffer into a temporary file (in /tmp) and then puts you into the vim editor for that file. Edit away precisely and quickly! Then write and quit to put the results back into the cut/paste buffer - and voila! You have edited your cut/paste buffer!

If you don't know vim, read about it here: https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/vim.html It's several times faster for editing text than stupid GUI boxes on web pages - because one does NOT have to use the mouse for positioning. In combinatation with fb, it means you can type text faster and answer emails faster.

Other tools are listed at: https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/toolkit.html


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origin: 2017 May 08
updated: 2017 May 08