learnbyexample

learnbyexample, 24 days ago

Is it regex or sed/awk syntax (or both) that gives you trouble?

I had similar reaction and didn’t even try to learn them for years - then I caught the stackoverflow craze of answering CLI questions (and learning from others).

learnbyexample, 25 days ago

oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner for optimizing images

auto-editor for removing silent portions from video recordings

learnbyexample, 30 days ago

Not my blog, just sharing it here. Saw it on HN (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419325)

learnbyexample, 1 month ago

What’s the difference between two_percent and skim?

learnbyexample, 2 months ago

Check out novelwriter.io

I’m not familiar with such softwares (I use pandoc for technical writing), but might help you…

learnbyexample, 2 months ago

I’m self-published and haven’t worked for other publications. Sometimes, my submissions reach HN front page, so you might have seen there or because others picked it up from there and shared around elsewhere.

learnbyexample, 2 months ago

You’re welcome, happy learning :)

learnbyexample, 2 months ago

Yeah, it is uncommon spelling, but if you google, you’ll find it’s not that rare ;)

learnbyexample, 2 months ago

As per the manual, “Mappings are set up to work like most click-and-type editors” - which is best suited with GUI Vim.

While Vim doesn’t make sense to use without the modes, there are plugins like github.com/tombh/novim-mode!

learnbyexample, 3 months ago

Thanks! 😊

learnbyexample, 3 months ago

Thanks a lot for the kind words! Means a lot to me :)

learnbyexample, 3 months ago

I had to learn Linux CLI tools, Vim and Perl at my very first job. Have a soft spot for Perl, despite not using it much these days other than occasional one-liners (mainly for advanced regex features).

learnbyexample, 10 months ago

Inspired by explainshell, I wrote a script (github.com/learnbyexample/command_help) to be used from the terminal itself. It is a bit buggy, but works well most of the time. For example:

<span style="color:#323232;">$ ch grep -Ao
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       grep - print lines that match patterns
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       -A NUM, --after-context=NUM
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines.  Places a
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              matches.  With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              and a warning is given.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">       -o, --only-matching
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              Print  only  the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with
</span><span style="color:#323232;">              each such part on a separate output line.
</span>