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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
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I pour the blue liquid on the red liquid. If it doesn't blow up on my
face, I proceed to turn up the flame under the blue liquid, and so on.
I have very little idea of what I am really doing, I just like the
pretty colors :-)
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
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here's some small improvements (Score:2)
The "r" is useful to change one character ("R" will overwrite a bunch of chars, it's like insert mode but overwrites).
The "ddp" switches the current line with the next. It is a variant on the very useful (especiall
vi is like perl (Score:2)
I found that my initial use of vi was adequate, but that every 6 months or a year I would read through the vi manual and pick a few more useful idioms and add them to the set that I knew well enough to use without thinking. After a few years of this, my vi repertoire was large enough that most of the new idioms I tried to learn were not useful often enough - by the next time I had a good reason to use one of them, I had forgotten it - so that I wasn't learning much more. So I dropped it down to every few years I would reread the manual (like when a new vi-lookalike comes along - like vim).
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