Advanced #Programming in the #UNIX Environment

Week 5, Unix Development Tools: The Editor

We look at the required feature for a full-fledged programmer's editor and illustrate some of the core functionality by example of #vim. This includes basic motion commands, setting and moving to markers, using folds, and the use of the ':make' command and quick fix lists to address compiler errors efficiently.

youtu.be/DdaJ87G9Kes

#apue

If you're wondering how I post such long threads here so quickly, I use the following #Perl script that I've written: gist.github.com/Ovid/5db4290f4…

It also has instructions in the docs for how to integrate this directly into your #vim or #neoVIM editor. You can write whole essays there and post them. It's a great way to annoy your friends!

I should update it to allow content warnings and images.

#software #OpenSource

Quick hack to post to Mastodon from the command line

Quick hack to post to Mastodon from the command line - masto.pl

^Gist

I feel your pain. ^x+y should get you out.

Then you can run Vim which everybody knows and is easier to use.

I hope that helps, enjoy! 🙂

#tallship #Vim #pico #FOSS #UNIX

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It took a while to find out why #vim was showing weird colouring: It wasn't a #Perl script I was editing.

I had already ran it and it complained a lot and I looked at it and it didn't make click.

For my vi/vim friends: sheet.shiar.nl/vi

Possibly old news, but still worth sharing. 😀

#vi #vim

This is what I hear in my head if I switch back to #Emacs or #Vim.

source: mastodon.social/@workchronicle…

Not a huge fan, as I find that #Vim
is usually much faster for me, but I do use it in a pinch here and there, although I alias nano to #pico ;)

On #NetBSD, at least at #SDF, nano is still the default install from the U of Washington contribs (not pico).

The other half of that equation is #pine (alpine). When running #mutt, I do use nano over that of #vi for authoring my emails.

Thanks for sharing those #ProTip's Danie 😀

#tallship #FOSS #nano

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youtube.com/watch?v=cNbcRXKsXf…

OMG!! This one contains so much interesting information about vim and regex stuff 😮 Super interesting... also the problem itself that gets solved is a nice one!! 😺

#vim #neovim #regex

VIM - I DIDNT KNOW THIS!!! | Prime Reacts

Recorded live on twitch, GET IN https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagenBecome a backend engineer. Its my favorite sitehttps://boot.dev/?promo=PRIMEYTThis is also the...

^YouTube

Finally got my #Vim setup just right.

Image: Jon Sasaki Killing One Bird with Half a Stone

Seen because of @mustachio

#CS Teachers Panic as Replit Pulls the Plug on Educational IDE. m.slashdot.org/story/421727

First they said, "you no longer need to learn #assembly language." Later this expanded to include #C." Then they said the same thing about #Perl. Eventually #emacs and #vim were also forgotten in favor of the new and the novel.

Now no one can code without an IDE that holds their hand and everyone thinks this is normal.

Modal editors have the huge advantage to touch typists that you can navigate around the screen without taking your hands off the home row. My wrists only hurt when I'm doing stuff that requires me to move my hand off the keyboard and onto the mouse or arrow keys and back constantly1
there used to be a "modal like" way to write #Japanese on cell #phones before : The first letter you hit was a conson let's say K, and then, and then the next key you would hit would have the role of a conson. (Having two conson in a row is impossible in Japanese)
Modes can be dangerous if you forget what mode you're in, but very little cannot usually easily be recovered. Also, modal interaction, while counter-intuitive makes it easy to use very powerful commands. I am roughly Vim's age and I still see modal interaction as the only way of having real power on a keyboard.
aware multi-modal - touch and speech are aware of each other and intersect

unaware multi-modal - touch and speech are unaware of each other and conflict
#emacs #vim

stackoverflow.com/a/31124

Why are there so few modal-editors that aren't vi*?

Pretty much every other editor that isn't a vi descendant (vim, cream, vi-emu) seems to use the emacs shortcuts (ctrl+w to delete back a word and so on)

^{Stack Overflow}

Vi and Vim Cheatsheet: Boost Your Text Editing Efficiency

#Vi #Vim #TextEditor #Unix #Linux #Cheatsheet #Programming #Terminal

The Vim original author Bram Moolenaar has passed away.

groups.google.com/g/vim_announ…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Moo…

I think Vim is a kind of piece of software that I found fabulous when I first migrated to Linux.

At first I had to deal with Vi, but I quickly discovered #Vim which was a lot more powerful.

Software programmer

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I've finally bit the bullet and installed #neovim. I followed the instructions for reusing my .vimrc[1] and gave it a shot. No differences discovered yet.

My #vim setup is decades old, it's crufty, uses hand-crafted plugins, and would make any vim purist weep. But it's powerful and it's mine. I am shocked that neovim appears, so far, to have handled it seamlessly.

1. neovim.io/doc/user/nvim.html#n…

@smallcircles

Hey Arnold, lolz...

I think you've been #RickRolled as part of an #April_Fool's joke -they gotcha bro 🤡

The very best April Fool's jokes are the one's that are actually plausible.

I remember a couple of years back some big tech media company was lamenting the fact that (prolly ewb00ntew) had ditched #Vim in favor of VS Code. The article was horrifyingly convincing until the very end when they sprang the joke.

Go checkout the video and see what I mean

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@Perl there have been several formative tech moments in my life, learning #Perl was the first, later #Vim and #Git. I've tried learning #python, but for some reason it just won't go in. Perl has always felt just right.

Learning how to code beautiful Perl so that it is easy to read is a must and it can be done, you just have to give up all those clever shortcuts.