Advanced Search and Replace with Vim

I find search and replace to be a remarkably interesting topic, because it touches on so many Vim concepts. As a text editor, one of Vim’s superpower is composability, which enables combining small commands to accomplish complex tasks with search and replace.

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Integrating your dev workflow with WSL

Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short, is a quite impressive piece of technology, and one of the best moves Microsoft could have made to attract developers. Particularly web developers.

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Beezwax Web Team Code Review: a blog post with ulterior motives

I have ulteI want you hacking, at Beezwaxrior motives.
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Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 1: Git

While the attribution may be hazy, the notion of laziness being an attribute of a good programmer is popular. I don’t know how good of a programmer I am, but I am really lazy.

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Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 4: Cadaver Dissection

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Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 5: When to Choose Bash

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Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 2: Rails

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Simple Bash Scripts for Lazy People | Part 3: Other Examples

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Useful Vim Mappings

A few mappings to help boost your Vim workflow.

Rotate through different line numbering settings

Switch between absolute line numbers (normal), relative numbers (based on distance from your cursor) and no numbers at all using CTRL-n:

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