Russ Sharek
screwlisp@RussSharek
Do you ever feel like line noise invocations like
/b^M0dd2pj^[0"ay$j@a
are literally fantasy wizardry. Imagine Understanding this (Write new line under: search for the next letter b. Kill that line, then paste it twice: move down a line. Now stop editing, and yank this line into my spellbook as 'a'. Move down a line and cast a.)
I suspect you might be on to something...
Not too long ago, I had a really vivid dream about being a wizard and casting these sorts of 'incantations' as spells. Despite years of poking at computers, it took digging into the "old ways" to get my brain thinking like that.
Today's was a far simpler spell: `~$` transforming an entire line to uppercase, which was even faster than passing the line to helpful mystic creatures like tr, sed, or awk.
@RussSharek cc my vi history guru @dougmerritt
DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)@screwlisp @RussSharek
This is a really fun idea. There are a lot of ways you could expand on it if you feel like it.
This is a really fun idea. There are a lot of ways you could expand on it if you feel like it.
I'm reminded of the 'unix magic' poster.
That's the one.