Show HN: A command-line tool for slicing and formatting input using Vim motions

Re:Show HN: A command-line tool for slicing and formatting i... by dsjkvf on Thursday June 12, 2025 @08:00AM (#44256689)

Or, just learn / use awk, since you'll need it anyway.

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Re:Show HN: A command-line tool for slicing and formatting i... by video_2 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @12:21PM (#44259508)

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.

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Re:Show HN: A command-line tool for slicing and formatting i... by dsjkvf on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:20PM (#44260991)

You realize Vim will detect "sentence" based on exactly the same regex you can feed to awk? And "tabular data", dear me...

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Re:Show HN: A command-line tool for slicing and formatting i... by video_2 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @05:04PM (#44263178)

Yes, but vicut is also faster on benchmarks. And you won't need to write out a whole regex.

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"

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Re:Show HN: A command-line tool for slicing and formatting i... by dsjkvf on Friday June 13, 2025 @08:18AM (#44267861)

> Yes, but vicut is also faster on benchmarks

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.

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