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Bash modes

Jan 6, 2009 by Colin

I've been using Bash for years now and have gotten relatively comfortable with the Emacs-based commands necessary to navigate around a previously entered command that needed to be modified. However, I've occasionally encountered cases where I wished that the command line behaved more like vi. Not that I think it's definitively better than Emacs, I just know a bit of v...

Tagged: bash, readline, vi, emacs

Useful (though random) vim tips

Jan 4, 2009 by Colin

Following Thoughtbot's excellent example, I thought I'd also put together a few random vim tips for others who've made the scary jump from Textmate. Searching Assuming you've got your fingers dirty with vim's great search functionality (faster to use than Textmate's, I might add), you may encounter occasional unpleasantness when you've just searched for a word or p...

Tagged: vi, vim, textmate, regex, regular expressions, searching, text editor, ex