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james2vegas

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  1. comment
    Comment #13807356

    pity it doesn't work with nvi as undo and redo are the same (u) and . to repeat

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    Comment #13779562

    needs to index perlvar for this; very few hits on anything from there and those that did the results that come up are for bash only it's google though shouldn't be surprised

  3. comment
    Comment #13586461

    set BLOCKSIZE to some power of 1024 when running du

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    Comment #12595091

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent

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    Comment #12422049

    ex is usually safe from the featuritis that grips vim

  6. comment
    Comment #12133497

    libwww-perl has been unaffected since 2001

  7. comment
    Comment #11026487

    s/VI/vim/ in case you were wanting to use uu in a standard way

  8. comment
    Comment #10585467

    rs(1)'s transpose

  9. comment
    Comment #10475868

    except putting the code back into mainline postgres

  10. comment
    Comment #10369883

    the best vimrc is the one that doesn't exist, so that vim runs in compat mode

  11. comment
    Comment #10066765

    and that it is very similar to ex's command set

  12. comment
    Comment #9792590

    I see Linux and OS X, where are the iOS, Android and *BSD binaries?

  13. comment
    Comment #9267618

    Lots of people use vi (which lacks block-select mode) as more than a Notepad.exe-alike without frustration

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    Comment #9015414

    many languages that do OO have that; Perl, Smalltalk, Objective-C, f.e.. But this seems more like monkey-patching.

  15. comment
    Comment #8989875

    https://metacpan.org/release/Sub-Infix

  16. comment
    Comment #8828438

    And like any binary releases, there are platforms that are missed/forgotten/not cared enough about.

  17. comment
    Comment #8828424

    But.. Go is Awesome!™

  18. comment
    Comment #8797593

    diff --git a/src/shared/xml.h b/src/shared/xml.h to weed out the less than <C99 compilers? heh

  19. comment
    Comment #8577438

    Perhaps start with looking at something less baroque than vim, like the original vi or nvi.

  20. comment
    Comment #8486936

    Blame man(7), have a look at mdoc(7): Semantic markup for command line utilities: Nm : start a SYNOPSIS block with the name of a utility; Fl : command line options (flags) (>=0 arg…

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    Comment #8399131

    Windows had the basic *nix utils (more BSD than GNU) with the SFU/SUA stuff which they killed with Windows 8.

  22. comment
    Comment #8210469

    On Jet Blue (ESE)? It wouldn't be the first, RavenDB http://ravendb.net is based on ESE. I remember awhle back doing work on a system that (ab)used MS Exchange Server 5 as a databa…

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    Comment #8210441

    'cause what the world needs is another pXrXoXpXrXiXeXtXaXrXyX NoSQL solution.

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    Comment #8158068

    yeah, very novel. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tu... http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/howLay...

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    Comment #8025573

    "C and Perl"?