Mastodawn

@rl_dane @ed1conf @mwl
I love his style of writing as well!

Where there's a lineage or evolution, I really like to start as close to the origin as possible (or at least read about it). It gives context for what's come after and I find gives me a better intuition for things.

I'm looking forward to any future posts as you're using ed(1) and it's descendents :)

#unix #ed #vi #nvi #textediting #mwl

onokoto █May 31

i watched this video 10 years ago and here i am today being able to create a website ー manage projects ー write documentation ー make presentations ー compiling scripts sample libraries to single files ー keeping track of todos deadlines and what not

ultimately it is not about Emacs ー but rather understanding where the values of structure and note taking can take you

and the Speaker is totally awesome！

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzA2YODtgK4

#emacs #orgmode #textediting #computing #tech #technology #テキストエディタ

Getting Started With Org Mode

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Rafael Pérez 🌞May 28

XDA Developers writer and Linux systems administrator Korbin Brown makes a pretty good use case for VS Code as a Jack of All Trades general productivity app.

I use VS Code for front end work, namely Angular/Typescript coding (I still use Visual Studio/C# for backend web api work), and I can attest to its merits.

"VS Code is the best productivity app on my PC, and I barely use it for coding anymore"

https://www.xda-developers.com/using-vs-code-as-productivity-app/

#textediting #vscode #markdown #productivity #programming #coding

N-gated Hacker News May 14

Oh look, it's another riveting piece of academic literature desperately trying to measure the un-measurable: how much #AI is meddling with our precious words. Because nothing says "cutting-edge research" like a deep dive into the mysterious art of text editing by our robo-overlords. 🤖📚 We eagerly await the next groundbreaking paper on quantifying the extent of #procrastination in #academia. 🙄✨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154 #Research #TextEditing #RoboOverlords #HackerNews #ngated

EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Text

A significant proportion of queries to large language models ask them to edit user-provided text, rather than generate new text from scratch. While previous work focuses on detecting fully AI-generated text, we demonstrate that AI-edited text is distinguishable from human-written and AI-generated text. First, we propose using lightweight similarity metrics to quantify the magnitude of AI editing present in a text given the original human-written text and validate these metrics with human annotators. Using these similarity metrics as intermediate supervision, we then train EditLens, a regression model that predicts the amount of AI editing present within a text. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on both binary (F1=94.7%) and ternary (F1=90.4%) classification tasks in distinguishing human, AI, and mixed writing. Not only do we show that AI-edited text can be detected, but also that the degree of change made by AI to human writing can be detected, which has implications for authorship attribution, education, and policy. Finally, as a case study, we use our model to analyze the effects of AI-edits applied by Grammarly, a popular writing assistance tool. To encourage further research, we commit to publicly releasing our models and dataset.

arXiv.org

9to5Linux [Unofficial]Apr 8

GNU nano 9.0 CLI Text Editor Released with New Features and Improvements

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://9to5linux.com/gnu-nano-9-0-cli-text-editor-released-with-new-features-and-improvements

N-gated Hacker News Mar 26

🌟✨ "Life-changing" shell tricks revealed! 🚀 Because, obviously, the pinnacle of human #innovation is finding faster ways to delete text. 😂 Spoiler: rearranging virtual furniture in your terminal won't save your sanity. 🖥️🙄
https://blog.hofstede.it/shell-tricks-that-actually-make-life-easier-and-save-your-sanity/ #LifeChangingShellTricks #TerminalHacks #TextEditing #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...

Larvitz Blog

Matt Mar 18

Is there an app like this?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iW9RygbjnFQ

I’m looking for a text editor that enables above the line annotations as part of the text and reflows it accordingly.

#help #linux #recommendStuff #textEditing

I want to edit my text in a different way

YouTube

9to5Linux [Unofficial]Feb 14

Vim 9.2 Is Out with Comprehensive Completion, Wayland Support, and More

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://9to5linux.com/vim-9-2-is-out-with-comprehensive-completion-wayland-support-and-more

N-gated Hacker News Oct 25, 2025

🎓 Oh look, yet another "critical" CS course that promises to teach you what you should've learned between Reddit scrolling marathons. 🙄 Apparently, mastering the command line and version control is like discovering the holy grail of tech enlightenment. But fear not, they will teach you how to edit text like a proper adult. 🖥️🎉
https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ #criticalCScourse #techenlightenment #commandline #versioncontrol #textediting #RedditScrolling #HackerNews #ngated

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Master powerful tools that will make you a more productive computer scientist and programmer.

Missing Semester

N-gated Hacker News Sep 4, 2025

The wizards of text-editing have conjured a new spell: "Neovim Pack!" 🎩✨ Now you can join the exclusive club of plugin hoarders by nesting your precious code toys into neat little folders. 🗂️ Because nothing says #productivity like wrestling with directories instead of actually coding. 🧙‍♂️🔮
https://neovim.io/doc/user/pack.html#vim.pack #Neovim #Pack #textediting #codeplugins #codingcommunity #HackerNews #ngated

Pack - Neovim docs

Neovim user documentation