On 8/16/2023 5:41 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
As Shmuel suggests, that sounds like vi or one of its relatives. The best description of vi I've ever heard is:> "vi has two modes: one where it corrupts your data, and one where it beeps at you."

Chuckle.

That's good.

But there are more modes. I just can't come up with any comparably witty descriptions.

On 8/16/23 5:27 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
++1

I have a cert for being able to use vi from the U of Akron.. I can start it and kill it. Apparently that qualifies as being able to use it.

I used the following today:

:0,/^$/s/\s\+/\t/

It saved me a lot of time working on / analyzing an email.

If there's interest, I'll expand it for people.



Grant. . . .

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