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One of the things which encouraged me towards less "trendy" software is that it hasn't gotten totally caught up in ai-hype. Books written before the slop-pocalypse are really useful, and turn out to be a nice way to soothe my inner nerd while I continue to learn new (to me) things.

As an example, the venerable "Unix Power Tools" has a wonderful chapter on the vi editor:

https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/part05.htm

Enjoy!

#vi #viTips #nvi #text-editor #plaintext #stopSlop #noAI

One of the things which encouraged me towards less "trendy" software is that it hasn't gotten totally caught up in ai-hype. Books written before the slop-pocalypse are really useful, and turn out to be a nice way to soothe my inner nerd while I continue to learn new (to me) things.

As an example, the venerable "Unix Power Tools" has a wonderful chapter on the vi editor:

https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/part05.htm

Enjoy!

#vi #viTips #nvi #text-editor #plaintext #stopSlop #noAI

One of the things which encouraged me towards less "trendy" software is that it hasn't gotten totally caught up in ai-hype. Books written before the slop-pocalypse are really useful, and turn out to be a nice way to soothe my inner nerd while I continue to learn new (to me) things.

As an example, the venerable "Unix Power Tools" has a wonderful chapter on the vi editor:

https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/part05.htm

Enjoy!

#vi #viTips #nvi #text-editor #plaintext #stopSlop #noAI

One of the things which encouraged me towards less "trendy" software is that it hasn't gotten totally caught up in ai-hype. Books written before the slop-pocalypse are really useful, and turn out to be a nice way to soothe my inner nerd while I continue to learn new (to me) things.

As an example, the venerable "Unix Power Tools" has a wonderful chapter on the vi editor:

https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/part05.htm

Enjoy!

#vi #viTips #nvi #text-editor #plaintext #stopSlop #noAI

As I continue to escape into the obscuria of elder text mangling tools, I've found myself enjoying the opportunity to act as the local #viTips fairy when I find anything interesting or useful.

And here's another cool vi trick I found!

You can append to a file rather than overwriting it by prefixing >> to the filename:

:w >>appendtofilename

This can work on parts of a buffer by prefixing line numbers or ranges:

2,+1w >>appendfilename

This appends the second and subsequent line.

#vi #nvi

As I continue to escape into the obscuria of elder text mangling tools, I've found myself enjoying the opportunity to act as the local #viTips fairy when I find anything interesting or useful.

And here's another cool vi trick I found!

You can append to a file rather than overwriting it by prefixing >> to the filename:

:w >>appendtofilename

This can work on parts of a buffer by prefixing line numbers or ranges:

2,+1w >>appendfilename

This appends the second and subsequent line.

#vi #nvi

As I continue to escape into the obscuria of elder text mangling tools, I've found myself enjoying the opportunity to act as the local #viTips fairy when I find anything interesting or useful.

And here's another cool vi trick I found!

You can append to a file rather than overwriting it by prefixing >> to the filename:

:w >>appendtofilename

This can work on parts of a buffer by prefixing line numbers or ranges:

2,+1w >>appendfilename

This appends the second and subsequent line.

#vi #nvi

As I continue to escape into the obscuria of elder text mangling tools, I've found myself enjoying the opportunity to act as the local #viTips fairy when I find anything interesting or useful.

And here's another cool vi trick I found!

You can append to a file rather than overwriting it by prefixing >> to the filename:

:w >>appendtofilename

This can work on parts of a buffer by prefixing line numbers or ranges:

2,+1w >>appendfilename

This appends the second and subsequent line.

#vi #nvi