Tags: unix

Vi super commands

October 18th, 2009
Vi is one of the most powerful text editors, but it really separates the men from the boys. GUI's are highly over rated - all you want is a big black page. Apart from some clear context colouring what more do you need to write code? One of Vi's streng… more »

Stripping line feeds from dos files

November 9th, 2008
Finding the differences between files under DOS is a pain, because DOS does not provide any tools to help manipulate files or streams of files. When I have source trees I need to compare I use the unix power tool diff. Sometimes (because of various ed… more »