My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation

Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by danielvaughn on Saturday August 05, 2023 @09:18PM (#37017997)

That was my first thought when I saw these. I’ve been interested in learning Vim but these look like hell to type.

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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by atorodius on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:38AM (#37019525)

You don’t need these.

I‘ve been viming for 10+ y and just using the normal shortcuts and ways of manipulating text is a major productivity gain.

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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by imbnwa on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:28AM (#37019725)

Vim regex engine descends from vi and ed, which predate Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, whose derivative forms we're all familiar with

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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by danielvaughn on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:58AM (#37022677)

Yep I'm familiar with regular expressions, but I don't typically use them as a command prompt.

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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by imbnwa on Sunday August 06, 2023 @03:14PM (#37025496)

Yeah, just explaining why it looks weird

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