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 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. :(

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