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Re:The Anvil Text Editor by gpderetta on Thursday October 24, 2024 @10:10AM (#41935665)
Some people can craft the perfect command ahead of time to execute an series of editing operations on the first try. Some other people (/raises hand) prefer to visual incremental feedback on an in-progress operation and be able to partially undo mistakes as they go.
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Re:The Anvil Text Editor by skydhash on Thursday October 24, 2024 @08:56PM (#41941322)
With Vim it’s all local decision unless writing a macro or regex substitution would take less time (the structure is very repetitive). Often it’s just n.n.n.n. (Next search occurence and repeat last edit)
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Re:The Anvil Text Editor by reportgunner on Friday October 25, 2024 @09:02AM (#41944853)
People coming from word or notepad have no idea what 'n.n.n.n.' is supposed to be - they know how a cursor works though.
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