Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Vim as a Universal Editor

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  • FireNVim

    • Use NeoVim to edit in any textbox in browsers.

  • vscode-neovim

    • Use NeoVim as the editor in Visual Studio Code.

Tips on RV

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O-IODLU5pc

https://weretherussos.com/class-b-rv-manufacturers-list-camper-vans/

Tips and Traps

  1. For rentals, Class B/B+ (best with top popups) or small class C RVs are good choices …

The ripgrep Command Is a Better Alternative to the find Command

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions

wajig install ripgrep

Installation on macOS

brew install ripgrep

List Files

There are 2 ways to list files using ripgrep. The first way is file name (globbing pattern) based and the second way is file content (regex pattern) based.

Tips on "sed"

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Alternatives

  1. sad is a simpler alternative to sed. sad is implemented in Rust and has built-in integration of fzf, which makes it easy to visually inspect changes.

  2. For complicated text substitutions …