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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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