Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-11-20, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:30:32 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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For sheer economy of keystrokes, vi(m) is hard to beat.

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Moving around after inserting text requires n + 1 keystrokes: 1 to exit
insert mode, and n to move around. Editors which don’t have a separate
insert mode can do n moves with just n keystrokes.

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With vim, you can be in insert mode and still move around with the arrow
keys.
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/usr/share/vim/vim91/doc/ contains about 11 megs o' text help files.
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Actually, one problem with vim is tooooo many ways to do things. :-)

 
Every now and then I come across some nifty trick I didn't know about.  One
of my favourites is /\<foo\> - which finds the next occurrence of "foo" that
is a complete word, i.e. it ignores "foobar".
 

I didn't know there was a special way to do this.  I used simply "\ foo ", as
you said "tooooo many ways to do things".

G