This week I share 4 links to utilities that can organise your digital world without messing with your plain text data, and ask: what are your top 10 Vim commands for complete beginners?
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Welcome to a shorter edition of this weekly missive. A work deadline and the dreaded lurgy have kept me company for the past few days, so I’m taking it easy for a bit.
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Johnny Decimal is teaching me the command line. He welcomes input on the way he’s demystifying this baffling super power, so feel free to join in the conversation on the Fediverse.
This week I’ve installed Homebrew, and checked that it works. Next stop: installing hLedger. In the coming week I’ll be reviewing the syntax for entering data, and making sure my chart of accounts is where it needs to be.
I asked people on Mastodon what their top 10 Vim commands would be for a complete beginner, and here’s one of the responses:
:x
:q!
h j k l
w b
x p
dd cc
ciw
daw
v +v
% to match braces
So far I’m practicing with :q!
, h j k l
, w b
, G g
. What would your top 10 be? Let me know in the comments, or on Mastodon.
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