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Cross-Platform Swiss Army Knife

I found myself working on Objective-C, JavaScript, and C# all at the same time today. One issue I ran into was our C# model classes used camel case property names, but the JSON from the Node server used underscores.

Search and Replace with Capture Groups

Once you get comfortable with :%s for searching and replacing across an entire file, you can start to unlock more power by exploiting Vim's rich regular expression handling. Coming from a GUI background, you might be tempted to look for a plugin to solve a…

Counting and Calculating with Vim

I was working with a particularly unfriendly SQL dump file which was raising errors indicating that my data had the wrong amount of columns. To figure out what was going on, I used Vim to count the number of columns and then corrected the data using a substitution…

Vim 101: Search and Replace

In this article I assume the reader has a basic knowledge of regular expressions. To read about how Vim uses regular expressions, take a look at the pattern section of the Vim manual in :help pattern.

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