wedrifid comments on Intelligence Amplification Open Thread - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Will_Newsome 15 September 2010 08:39AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 17 September 2010 04:47:06AM 4 points [-]

It's extremely frustrating returning to a 'normal' editor and trying to find the shortcut key for 'regex substitution'. ;)

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 September 2010 01:52:57AM * 0 points [-]

Well, in Notepad, the keyboard shortcut for Find/Replace is Ctrl-H...

Comment author: wedrifid 22 September 2010 05:43:39AM 2 points [-]

I'm referring to my favourite feature of vim: regex substitution. Commands like :%s:(\w+)(.*\s+)(\w+)$:\3\2\1:

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 September 2010 11:36:39PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, old-fashioned find/replace just isn't as versatile as regular expressions. :(