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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by linsomniac on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:52AM (#37019082)
I like to think of vim as bytecode for text manipulation. You train your brain to emit the bytecode via your fingers.
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Re:My Favorite Vim Oneliners for Text Manipulation by vram22 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:30AM (#37020897)
Ha ha. Vimcode, though.

And "vim" is pretty close to "vm" for virtual machine that runs that vimcode, or bytecode :)

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