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Browser Recommendation: Firefox 🦊

  • Privacy-focused with built-in tracking protection
  • Highly customizable with extensions
  • Supports vertical tabs and container tabs
  • Regular security updates
  • Open-source, non-profit backed
  • Allows full ad blocking

Essential Keyboard Controls ⌨️

Clipboard Management

  • Windows + V: Opens Windows clipboard history - stores up to 25 recent items. Persist across restarts if pinned. Great for:
    • Recovering text lost to accidental overwrites
    • Copying multiple items before pasting
    • Quick access to frequently used text snippets
    • Example: Copy several code blocks, then paste them in different files
  • Ctrl + Shift + V: Paste as plain text. Removes special formatting from source. (Look at you Office...)

Navigation

  • Ctrl + Tab: Switch between tabs
  • Ctrl + W: Close current tab
  • Ctrl + Shift + T: Reopen closed tab

Tab Management

  • Middle-click:
    • Links: Open in new background tab
    • Tabs: Close tab
    • Reload: Reload in new tab (duplicate)
  • Middle-click tab:
    • Close Duplicate Tabs
    • Mute Tab (Also click speaker on mouse hover)

History Navigation

  • Back/Forward buttons:
  • Hold to view recent pages
  • Hover while holding to select
  • Release to navigate
  • Works in Chrome, Firefox, Edge

URL Bar Tricks

  • Ctrl + L: Focus URL bar
  • Ctrl + K: Focus search
  • Type '@site': Search within specific site

Simple Text Editor Power Tricks 📝

Multi-line Editing (The Game Changer)

Ever need to edit multiple lines the same way? Multi-line editing lets you type once and change everything at once. It's like having multiple cursors working together.

Simple examples:

  • Adding a dash before every line in a list
  • Putting quotes around multiple items
  • Adding commas at the end of each line
  • Fixing formatting on multiple lines at once

How to do it:

  • In Notepad++: Alt + Click for each line
  • In Sublime Text: Alt + Click, or Ctrl + Alt + Up/Down
  • In VS Code: Alt + Click, or Alt + Shift + Click

Find & Replace with Patterns (Starting Regex)

Regular expressions don't have to be scary. Let's start with a simple, useful pattern: (.*?)

This pattern is like a grabby hand:

  • The .* means "grab any characters"
  • The ? means "don't be greedy" (stop at the first match)
  • The () remembers what was grabbed

Real example with HTML:

<a href="https://example.com">Click here</a>

Using href="(.*?)" will grab just the URL part. This same pattern works for many similar tasks:

Getting text between quotes: "(.*?)"

Finding content between tags: <span>(.*?)</span> Extracting values: price:(.*?)dollars

Think of it as a fill-in-the-blank tool. The (.*?) is your blank, and you put what comes before and after around it. Use with Find/Replace to improve your editing skills.