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I use the following (in no particular order) -- definitely nothing fancy.

* weechat

* ffmpeg

* youtube-dl

* zsh

* watchman (https://facebook.github.io/watchman)

* megadl (rarely, but its a handy tool when you need it)

* brew (on my mac)

* mountsshfs (on my mac)

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I moved away from orgmode and have been using it in VS since I have it open anyway. It covers me.

I also want to start using Mutt or something similar.

For those wondering, you can output an unnecessarily pretty list using:

    history | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | perl -lane 'print $F[1], "\t", $F[0], " ", "" x ($F[0] / 12)'

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There's a Firefox extension that let's you open a youtube webpage with e.g. youtube-dl:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/

Sometimes, using a GUI is easier than a CLI :)

This doesn't look to take commands after a pipe into account so IMHO doesn't accurately reflect command usage. For example running above I was surprised awk wasn't in the list but when I went to investigate I found I almost always am piping something to awk.

Hmm yeah. And often I type multiple commands separated by semicolons, which it bunches together as one. Also that and long paths meant mine was very unpretty. Speaking of AWK, this uses the same flawed method, looks nicer (for my history), and is shorter:

  history | awk '{a[$2]++} END{for (i in a) print a[i]"\t"i}' | sort -n | tail

Just for curiosity: you have moved away from Emacs org-mode? If yes may I ask why?

I'm using Emacs since few times and it's now even my WM and org-mode is it's companion for nearly all docs/docs related stuff I use, never found anything even near comfortable and powerful as that combo...

yeah, I've never been a big emacs user outside of org-mode, so it was silly for me to be using it for one feature.

The VS one covers the basics and has treated me well. For more advanced org-mode folks, I don't think the VS org-mode would be enough.

Thanks, just curious because you are the first I here that have used Emacs and decide for something else.

For org-mode outside Emacs I do not know VSc but I've used in the past Vim port and agree: outside Emacs org-mode support is simply too limited to be considered...

its generous for me to say I'm an org-mode power user or whatever. My lists are fairly basic and this VSC one covers those basics.

I can't see a lot of people who use emacs for other things switching away.

This is the one I'm using --

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tootone....

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