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james2vegas··on Time scrolling
pity it doesn't work with nvi as undo and redo are the same (u) and . to repeat
james2vegas··on Improvements to searching for special characters in programming languages
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

james2vegas··on Where has my disk space gone? Flame graphs for file systems
set BLOCKSIZE to some power of 1024 when running du
james2vegas··on Inside Apple and IBM's App Making Machine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent
james2vegas··on Nano to remain in GNU
ex is usually safe from the featuritis that grips vim
james2vegas··on Httpoxy – A CGI application vulnerability
libwww-perl has been unaffected since 2001
james2vegas··on Wasavi – a browser extension that transforms TEXTAREA elements into a VI editor
s/VI/vim/ in case you were wanting to use uu in a standard way
james2vegas··on Show HN: Nixar – New design of Linux command line
rs(1)'s transpose
james2vegas··on Pivotal Greenplum Database has been open sourced
except putting the code back into mainline postgres
james2vegas··on A Good Vimrc
the best vimrc is the one that doesn't exist, so that vim runs in compat mode
james2vegas··on Edbrowse: an editor and web browser with a UI based on /bin/ed
and that it is very similar to ex's command set
james2vegas··on Kerf: a columnar tick database for Linux, OS X, BSD, iOS, Android
I see Linux and OS X, where are the iOS, Android and *BSD binaries?
james2vegas··on Mg: an Emacs-like editor in 160 kb
Lots of people use vi (which lacks block-select mode) as more than a Notepad.exe-alike without frustration
james2vegas··on Meta-programming JavaScript Using Proxies
many languages that do OO have that; Perl, Smalltalk, Objective-C, f.e.. But this seems more like monkey-patching.
james2vegas··on C++ named operators
https://metacpan.org/release/Sub-Infix
james2vegas··on GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang
And like any binary releases, there are platforms that are missed/forgotten/not cared enough about.
james2vegas··on Systemd/systemd – shared: add minimal JSON tokenizer
diff --git a/src/shared/xml.h b/src/shared/xml.h to weed out the less than <C99 compilers? heh
james2vegas··on Ask HN: What would it take to rewrite Vim?
Perhaps start with looking at something less baroque than vim, like the original vi or nvi.
james2vegas··on Hints for writing Unix tools
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 arguments); Cm : command modifier (>0 arguments); Ar : command arguments (>=0 arguments); Op, Oo, Oc : optional syntax elements (enclosure); Ic : internal or interactive command (>0 arguments); Ev : environmental variable (>0 arguments); Pa : file system path (>=0 arguments)
james2vegas··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
Windows had the basic *nix utils (more BSD than GNU) with the SFU/SUA stuff which they killed with Windows 8.
james2vegas··on DocumentDB
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 database, mostly because of the Outlook integration.

james2vegas··on DocumentDB
'cause what the world needs is another pXrXoXpXrXiXeXtXaXrXyX NoSQL solution.
james2vegas··on Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
yeah, very novel.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tu...

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/howLay...

james2vegas··on A list of tools for generating static websites
"C and Perl"?
james2vegas··on Anti-Patterns in Python Programming
perhaps that line was written by someone used to Perl, where they would have had

@a_list_of_words = qw/my list of words/;

there

james2vegas··on Option and Null in Dynamic Languages
in Perl:

  sub values_in(\@\%) {
    my ($keys, $d) = @_;
    grep { $d->{$_} } @$keys
  }
james2vegas··on Show HN: Ditto – Markdown documentation system
Yeah, because there aren't any documentation systems called mdoc already, at all.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/mdoc.7.html http://www.mono-project.com/Mdoc

james2vegas··on 2048 in sed
Except Mac OS X is a de jure UNIX implementation, and concern about GPLv3 is not petty.
james2vegas··on Show HN: Stencils.io – Graffletopia alternative for free OmniGraffle stencils
Now if only there were a free omnigraffle alternative that can read these stencils
james2vegas··on Ruby Hash Selector Pattern
A lookup table is a pattern now? http://search.cpan.org/~gsar/perl5.005/pod/perlfaq7.pod#How_...
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