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poopsmith @lemmy.world

1y ago

Opening a full editor is overrated

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:%s/warning/error/gn
You don't even have to touch your mouse
- Joke's on you: tiling wm
- With sed command you don't have to use mouse either.
  
  But you have to use your mouse to switch to a new terminal, assuming you are using vscode for everything else

Except that I need to do 5 minutes of googling every single time I want to use sed
- Skill issue
  
  The first requires no skill and does the same thing.
- if you're not being paid by the hour, try out clipea.
  
  ?? sed command to replace all 'warning' for 'error' in mid.py, in place

sd or nothing. I'm never dealing with sed's slow and out of date regex ever again
- Oh look, this one isn't installed on practically every Linux machine in existence
  
  For now 😎
- You know that sed does more than s///g, right?
  Someone even wrote a version of dc (the arbitrary precision RPN desktop calculator) with it. They were clearly insane of course, but it proves that sed is more than just find and replace.
  Honourable mention to awk's sub() and gsub() that, at least for basic find/replace, do the same thing. awk is often surprisingly quick.

I just learned that the Mac version of sed requires a backup file for the -i flag, making it really hard to write cross-platform scripts that use it.

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