Tag: vi
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Give yourself a Christmas present: learn sed
Text is at the core of The Unix Way – and all True Unix Hackers work from the command line. This much you know. (If you don’t get a copy of The Art of Unix Programming – there is an awful lot of rubbish in that book but it does do one thing well: explain…
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Software testers wanted
I have now reached the point with my hex editor – Hexxed – that I can aggressively look for software testers with confidence, as I feel I have a piece of software that does all the key things I want: insert (as zeros) and delete multiples of 8, 16, 32 or 64 bits at a…
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Adding vi-like functionality to Hexxed
I have decided that I will model the keyboard interface for Hexxed on vi. I know that is not what many/any coming from outside the Unix world will expect, but then there are plenty of Hex editors out there and I want to make one that will appeal to at least one niche. As I…
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Going to have to try eclim
For my MSc project I made heavy use of the Eclipse IDE to write various Groovy programs that took an XML input and output an SVG (of course SVG is XML also, but I hope you understand). Groovy was a great choice as, while not as fast as C, for instance, it was easy to…
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