Various things (aliases, vimrc, scripts, readme)

windows/Adobe Bridge - Startup Scripts/AlwaysShowSubfolderThumbs.jsx

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+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
+// Copyright 2008-2017 Adobe Systems Incorporated
+// All Rights Reserved
+//
+// NOTICE:  Adobe permits you to use, modify, and distribute this file in accordance with the
+// terms of the Adobe license agreement accompanying it.  If you have received this file from a
+// source other than Adobe, then your use, modification, or distribution of it requires the prior
+// written permission of Adobe.
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+// Works around the lack of a permanently enabled "Show Items from Subfolders" option (aka flat view). 
+// The default behaviour is to turn off the option when changing folders. This extension enables the 
+// flat view when the app starts and then keeps it enabled when changing folders. You can disable this 
+// behaviour by disabling the "Always Show Items from Subfolders" option.
+
+function AlwaysFlatViewSetting() {
+	this.requiredContext = "\tAdobe Bridge must be running.\n";
+	this.menuID = "alwaysFlatViewSetting";
+}
+
+AlwaysFlatViewSetting.prototype.run = function() {
+	if (!this.canRun()) return false;
+
+	var toggleFlatView = function(enable) {
+		var task = 'MenuElement.find("FlatView").checked = ' + (enable ? 'true' : 'false');
+		app.scheduleTask(task, 0, false);
+	}
+
+	var label = "Always Show Items from Subfolders";
+	var menuItem = new MenuElement( "command", label, "after FlatView");
+	menuItem.canBeChecked = true;
+	menuItem.checked      = true;
+	menuItem.onSelect     = function() {
+		menuItem.checked = !menuItem.checked;
+		toggleFlatView(menuItem.checked);
+	}
+
+	// Triggered when changing folders or selecting some menu option.
+	onSelectItem = function(event) {	
+		if (event.object instanceof Document && event.type == "selectionsChanged") {
+			if (menuItem.checked) {
+				toggleFlatView(true);
+			}
+			return {handled:false};  // continue handling all other event handlers
+		}		
+	}
+	app.eventHandlers.push({handler: onSelectItem});	
+    
+	return true;
+}
+
+AlwaysFlatViewSetting.prototype.canRun = function() {	
+	if (BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge") {
+		if (MenuElement.find(this.menuID)) {
+			return false; // Item already exists.
+		} 
+		return true;
+	}
+	$.writeln("ERROR:: Cannot run AlwaysFlatViewSetting");
+	$.writeln(this.requiredContext);
+	return false;
+}
+
+if (typeof(AlwaysFlatViewSetting_unitTest ) == "undefined") {
+	new AlwaysFlatViewSetting().run();
+}

windows/disable-windows-error-reporting-dialog.bat

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+reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting" /v "Disabled" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
+reg add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WerSvc" /v "Start" /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f

windows/readme.md

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     * AFAIK this only works for Intel CPUs; not sure how to do the same thing on AMD.
     * In the power plan set the processor min/max speed to 99%.
 
+* Disable Windows error reporting dialog so that when stuff crashes you can get to a debugger faster.
+    * Open an admin cmd prompt and run the file `disable-windows-error-reporting-dialog.bat` from this directory.
+
 * Optional: disable Windows Defender real-time protection:
     * This can speed up compilation times since Defender will scan every file written to disk. I was
       able to shave off ~2-5 seconds in a particular project.
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 * Install the Windows SDK https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk
 * Download [O&O ShutUp10](https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) and disable things.
 
-## Setup up Unix-like Shell
+## Setup Terminal
 * Install [MSYS2 w/ MinGW-w64](http://www.msys2.org/) to `C:\msys64`
+  * MinGW is intended for developing native Windows applications. MSYS is for developing software
+    that runs inside of the MSYS2 posix-like env with FHS style filesystem naming (i.e. MSYS2
+    tools/packages).
   * Open `C:\msys64\mingw64.exe`
   * Run `pacman -Syu`, then restart the terminal and run `pacman -Su`.
   * Run `pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git bc`