This product is so deep that I can’t even say how powerful it is. I’ve actually used the very first version of vi (pronounced “vee-eye”) when Bill Joy did the first cut, Wikipedia says it was in the very first BSD version, but that’s a longer story that doesn’t provide the whole story on how […]
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Superhuman, vi, slack and keyboard shortcuts rule
I haven’t done really heavy programming in a few years and in the last week I was reminded how important typing is even in the age of visual applications. It is just faster to get around and worth the effort if you are doing it all the time. So some quick tips: Divvy. Yes I […]
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More Vi tips get the pipe output of a command
OK, this is kind of a neat trick. If you want to get the output of a shell command into Vi for further editing, there is an extension to the read command where you can say take the output of a pipe. What this says is to do a read like a traditional file, but […]
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Editing Markdown with Vi and copying in Email
Many times, when you are documenting a project, you just want to copy in some email. This turns out to be quite difficult to do, so here’s a guide: If you do a simple copy and paste into a text file, the indents are going to be horrible as is the word wrap. A simple […]
