#text-manipulation

[ushf]

vanilla tmux cut-n-paste

I keep forgetting this, because I have the vi and clipboard solution setup on two machines. So, as a reminder, for tmux, using the default Ctrl-b, if I want to cut and paste on GNU/Linux:

ctrl-b [ to enter "copy mode"

ctrl-b spacebar to place "mark" for the start of the selection

arrow keys or ctrl-n, ctrl-p, etc (the default emacs bindings) to move "point" for the visual selection

alt-w to copy the visually selected piece

OR...... Esc to quit out of copy mode

ctrl-b ] to paste the selection into some other tmux-managed screen

[charliehoey-blog]

Emacs reveals its power

M-x replace-regexp \(name\)?\(id\)?\(for\)?="\([a-zA-Z /]*\)" \1\2\3="\,(downcase (replace-regexp-in-string "[ /-]" "_" \4))"

This is a bit heavy for my first post, but I just started forcing myself to use emacs and I'm sorta loving it. Here's the first fancy search/replace I did. This is something I wanted from TextWrangler for years: the ability to run scripts within the replace string for a regexp search. So in this case, I'm finding any name, id or for attributes, storing their values, converting spaces, slashes and dashes to underscores, and replacing them with the appropriate attribute tag. And I'm certain there's faster, more efficient regexps to do this. This took me around an hour to figure out how to do in emacs. It would have taken way less time to just replace them all by hand, but next time it'll probably only take me ten minutes. I'm starting to get what all the nerd fuss is about.