A while back, I learned that this incantation will delete all the blank lines in a vi buffer:

:%g/^$/d

Today I had my brain handed to me when a helpful person from 1991 pointed out that this easier to type version works:

:%v/./d

Relatedly, the #usenet archives (and in this case comp.editors) are a lovely place to take a break from the world.

https://usenetarchives.com

#nvi #vi #plaintext

In my faffing about with text editors, I ran into something kind of funny:

So, there's not a straightforward way to install vi (not vim) on termux. There is, however, a copy of ed in the base install.

And so I started poking at it. Amusingly, it turns out to be a surprisingly decent editor for the constraint that is grumpily poking at a piece of glass with my thumbs.

I'm sure @ed1conf will be delighted.

#vi #nvi #ed #plaintext

RE: https://c7.io/@corgidad/116344002651934496

Let this be your reminder of the day to back up EVERYTHING at least once, and to CHECK it's behaving itself at least weekly.

I've set a repeating reminder for Friday afternoons to check my backups are working. There's a link to click in the reminder to take me straight to the location of the backups, so I have no excuse to "do it later"!

#backup #PlainText #digital

#Vim carnival this month with the following topic: How do you use Neovim/Vim to build your knowledge management?

If you are interested, send me a link to your #blog post. I will collect all of them until the end of the month.

#FLOSS #FOSS #Neovim #editor #terminal #shell #opensource #Pkm #notes #plaintext #writing #blogging #bloggers #indieweb #carnival #journaling

https://lazybea.rs/vim-carnival-202604

Evert Pot: Burrow, a new Gopher client in the browser. “After building a gopher server and website, I couldn’t quite get enough of the Gopher bug, and decided to build a Gopher client in the browser. To be honest, this is actually more like a HTTP proxy for Gopher, but I might at some point turn this into a standalone client or even port it to some native platforms.” Those of y’all old enough […]

I was just introduced to termux, proot-distro, and the fact that alpine linux has a copy of OpenBSD's vi in their repository.

#vi
#nvi
#plaintext

If anything at all, this #AI thing is bringing to people attention the existence of some #plaintext esoteric syntaxes, such as #markdown, #plantuml and #mermaid, among others I myself find funny or exotic.

Having an average knowledge of these formats make interactions more straightforward requiring less "usage", or however the interaction scarcity is called.

Also, the effective use of plaintext in prompts, in shared attachments and in required outputs (instead of overcomplicated proprietary formats such as #microslop office formats), greatly increases the response speed and efficiency of #LLM s.

Fast Company: This free web tool makes everything way easier to read. “The next time you find yourself facing a web page with way too much going on, remember a tool called Textise​…. Textise is a simple-as-can-be website that converts any page you’re looking at into plain text—no fuss, no formatting, no images of any sort included.”