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Re:Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007) by beej71 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @09:12AM (#29472615)
One transform I've done a few times is something where you have a list like this:

foo bar baz

And you need each line transformed into:

[Foo](https://example.com/foo.html)

Or something like that. Macros make short work of it.

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Re:Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007) by WithinReason on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:40PM (#29475665)
Multiple cursors as well.
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Re:Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (2007) by beej71 on Saturday December 11, 2021 @04:23PM (#29524417)
My multiple cursor-fu isn't good enough to know how to do that with words of different lengths. I should get more into it.
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