Re:Show HN: A command-line tool for slicing and formatting i...
by video_2 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:21PM
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awk is nice in a lot of cases, especially for tabular data, but it's hard to deny vim's capabilities for handling plain text using text objects. For instance, you can't really tell awk to just "extract this entire sentence" like you can with vim.
Also, I'd love to see what this "sentence finding" regex of yours would look like. I'm sure it's way better than just typing "vis"
Than awk? I very, very doubt your 0.001-3s findings.
> I'm sure it's way better than just typing "vis"
Of course. Because you can use it everywhere, that's the whole point of learning regex, awk, or any other POSIX tool.