The Valuable Dev - Diving in Vim's Regular Expressions
Sunday Greetings, Valuable Developer!
Hope everything’s going well on your side!
Even if my motivation was low the last couple of months, I’m happy to announce that it’s getting back to its former glory. Nothing surprising here; the creative process have always highs and lows. It’s useful to keep that in mind, especially when we’re on the low side of things.
This month, we dive deeper in Vim’s regular expressions with this article:
Diving Deeper in Vim Regular Expressions
Let’s dive deeper in Vim regexes by looking at specific metacharacters only available in your favorite editor.
Updates
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I published another article in the series explaining how and why I’ve written my book Building Your Mouseless Development Environment.
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I’m still writing my book Learning to Play Vim almost on a daily basis. It’s a difficult book to write, that’s why it takes time.
Mouseless
Here are some good CLIs for your shell:
- The CLI waybackurls displays all the URLS indexed by the wayback machine for a given website.
- If you want to flip some flashcards in your terminal, speki might be what you want.
- Here’s an original one: rebound will query stackoverflow when your script throws an exception.
- If you want to interactively dig into a JSON tree, JSON incremental digger is for you!
Book
I tried to read Sapiens a while ago, but I had to put it down: I didn’t like the author ranting for pages against the agriculture revolution which apparently doomed us all.
That said, I still find the early history (and pre-history) of humanity quite fascinating, and, in that regard, The Dawn of Everything is a much better read, underlying the complexity of human societies, even when we were only hunter and gatherers. It’s not without flows (being also somehow politically charged at time), but it’s still an excellent book.
Let’s Connect
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Many thanks for your interest in my work, and see you in a month!