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RTFM (as in Read The Fine Manual). To me, the key for being productivity is understand throughly the "tools" we use: IDE, languages, libraries, framework cli,
by letientai299 6y ago
RTFM (as in Read The Fine Manual).
To me, the key for being productivity is understand throughly the "tools" we use: IDE, languages, libraries, framework cli, os, shell,... Read the implementation, the docs, the issue tracker, even the git history if you have time.
When I started to learn vim, I tried many popular distribution without understand each of the plugins they included. And I almost gave up learning vim. It's until I start to read the vim manual, learn the key strokes one by one and then building my own distribution, that's when I really know how to use vim. Even so, I still learn many great things from books like Practical Vim by Drew Neil (on Tmux, there's Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development)
I think you might already know that, but still shooting here for some quick tips. I don't have any shortcut, just that motto.
- DannyB2 6y ago> RTFM (as in Read The Fine Manual). Some developers use alternate F-words for RTFM. F-words like: Fabulous or Fantastic or Friendly
- amelius 6y agoThose developers should read the manual: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM
- kanyethegreat 6y agoLove this! I found that the more experienced I became as a dev, the more I gravitated toward the less-removed sources of truth (eg. man pages instead of stack overflow, source code instead of blog articles, etc). Haven't started reading issue trackers, but huge fan of traversing a git history (assuming it's clean and atomic).
- RMPR 6y ago> I still learn many great things from books like Practical Vim by Drew Neil You should also check out "Modern Vim: Craft Your Development Environment with Vim 8 and Neovim" from the same author.