Truly - moving off my triple headed desktop to my X1 carbon is always jarring, especially with merging. A few things that have helped me working with constrain

Truly - moving off my triple headed desktop to my X1 carbon is always jarring, especially with merging. A few things that have helped me working with constrained real estate: 1) Terminal font choice - I switched to Inconsolata last year for my road laptop. Can drop font size to 10 and save serious column space without murdering your eyes. 2) High contrast syntax highlighting with light and dark themes - While I love Solarized on my desktop, glare can make it tough to read. I often switch to Tomorrow (http://chriskempson.github.io/base16/#tomorrow http://chriskempson.github.io/base16/#tomorrow) dark or light depending on the conditions. 3) Buffer navigation plugins - The biggest productivity sink of the small, horizontal laptop screen is the reduced real estate for code. You end up spending way more time navigating up and down a file than on a bigger screen. As I use vim, I use EasyMotion (https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion) to make that navigation fast. Repeating the last motion in particular is super useful. Hope that helps.