IRC is and old and yet extremely rewarding protocol. I have been there, in various channels for around 3 years now and I have found great people, always willing to help. I have found some trolls also, but that is a minority, I think.
Let me put a real example:
16:40:19 < drio> Is there any way to move around between tabs without having to go one by one.... 16:41:52 < samuel-veyre> drio : was you around five minutes ago ? ... try gt3 to go to tab 3 for example. 16:42:37 < samuel-veyre> drio, :he tabpage
The question is, are you going to be able to remember all this gems. I don't, in some cases. I just use and then I forgot, unless I use it over and over again. Quicksilver to the rescue here.
Let's say you are in #ruby and #vim, create some files like:
$ ls -lac the_knowledge_pool/ total 8 drwxr-xr-x 5 drio staff 170 Aug 6 16:46 . drwx------+ 69 drio staff 2346 Aug 7 17:18 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 drio staff 0 Jul 25 10:17 ruby.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 drio staff 0 Jul 25 10:11 todo.txt -rw-r--r--@ 1 drio staff 0 Aug 6 16:46 vim.txt
Once that is done, make quicksilver load those files so you can access them easily. Then, when you get a gem from IRC, just use the "append to" in quicksilver to add the bits to the particular txt file.
Quicksilver is one of my favorite tools for macosx. Unfortunately seems to be very unstable. Particulary crashes a lot when I am bringing my mbp back from sleeping.
This tip in macosxhints show you how to use launchd to keep an eye in the quicksilver crash log so it can be relaunched when crashes.
It really saves you time.
posted at: 15:37 | path: /quicksilver | permanent link to this entry