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[vim] avoid accidental maro recording (@q)

Posted 11-06-2021 at 06:02 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 11-13-2021 at 12:42 AM by Michael Uplawski

in ~/.vimrc I note

Code:

nnoremap Q q
nnoremap q <Nop>

and no longer end up in macro-recording mode, when I forget the colon before 'q'.

Copied & pasted from Stack Overflow (see there).

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Unbuffered shell-input

Posted 10-16-2021 at 01:46 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 11-13-2021 at 12:43 AM by Michael Uplawski (Wrong title, much misunderstanding and ill-chosen search criteria.)

There are solutions on the Web.

Having read some of these, I prefer a Ruby-Oneliner “readNB” which returns the 1 character that the user has had a chance to enter on the keyboard, before readNB returns.

---------------------- In the meantime -------------------------
GazL has – in the very first comment on this blog, below – presented a better solution with the shell built-in command read: read accepts some parameters and a call like

Code:

read -r -s -N1 [VARIABLE]

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False statement

Posted 03-23-2021 at 12:57 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 12-06-2021 at 07:14 AM by Michael Uplawski

Tags doubt, neuroscience, pseudo-science

I just modified my comment to one of my own blog-entries but now feel that it is itself worth an entry.

If it sticks it may be sticky. Avoid.

This comment contained a false statement. I have to leave it here and mark it as false, because it is frequently repeated in a pseudo-scientific context, by right-wing political activists, by marketing-experts, by so-called “coaches”.

The story is that, around 1955, an American scientific formulated a hypothesis which was

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Found the old replace command

Posted 08-18-2018 at 03:48 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 11-13-2021 at 12:45 AM by Michael Uplawski (Category and missing sarcasm added. Orthography.)

... funny.

Discover the Norman religion:

Code:

me@this_PC:~$ echo "We can't do nothing, face it!" | replace "can't" "do not want to"
We do not want to do nothing, face it!

But the command was not available anymore. Dummy me. I have written it myself a while ago!

The script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding UTF-8
#
# This utility reads text from STDIN (via a pipe) and replaces

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