Comments on: Before you start Scripting……… http://www.martiangeek.com/2007/08/01/before-you-start-scripting/ tHE RaNTS oF a pOOr sOUl StuCK oN ThE WRONG!!! rOCK OrBiTiNg tHE fIreBaLL bY a cRUel tWiSt oF fAtE.... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:32:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: cafm http://www.martiangeek.com/2007/08/01/before-you-start-scripting/comment-page-1/#comment-71 cafm Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:23:40 +0000 http://www.martiangeek.com/2007/08/01/p112/#comment-71 Hi Paddy, Your totally right in saying that learning a POWERFUL yet Simple (as most things in Unix are) editor like vi would go a long way in increasing your productivity, but I guess I conveniently skipped it cuz in the project I work in we are forced to use a editor thats been built "into" the environment. And the thing with vi is that if you want to get the real power, we need to know a lot of commands, which would be ingrained in us only if we use it regularly. Hi Paddy,
Your totally right in saying that learning a POWERFUL yet Simple (as most things in Unix are) editor like vi would go a long way in increasing your productivity, but I guess I conveniently skipped it cuz in the project I work in we are forced to use a editor thats been built “into” the environment. And the thing with vi is that if you want to get the real power, we need to know a lot of commands, which would be ingrained in us only if we use it regularly.

]]> By: Paddy3118 http://www.martiangeek.com/2007/08/01/before-you-start-scripting/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Paddy3118 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:18:54 +0000 http://www.martiangeek.com/2007/08/01/p112/#comment-70 Unfortunately, a good editor like vim takes time to learn, but once earnt, its in-built commands, and the ability to 'shell-out' i.e. select text and pass the selection through a filter and have the selection replaced by the output of the filter, is another powerful way of manipulating text files. - Paddy. Unfortunately, a good editor like vim takes time to learn, but once earnt, its in-built commands, and the ability to ’shell-out’ i.e. select text and pass the selection through a filter and have the selection replaced by the output of the filter, is another powerful way of manipulating text files.

- Paddy.

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