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Martin Tournoij
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First I was grepping just on special occasions, but before long I was doing it every weekend. Then someone brought some sed over and I was "sure, why not?" and boy, what a mistake that was. I ended up as a daily vi user :-/

  • Previously Carpetsmoker; also known as arp242.
  • Dutchman living in the UK New Zealand Ireland Indonesia.
  • Programmer of stuff and Unix addict.
  • Author of GoatCounter.
  • I occasionally write something at arp242.net.
  • You can contact me at martin@arp242.net.
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517
How can I copy text to the system clipboard from Vim?
Feb 3, 2015
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267
What's the simplest way to strip trailing whitespace from all lines in a file?
Feb 5, 2015
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265
Why doesn't the backspace key work in insert mode?
Feb 24, 2015
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185
What is Neovim? How is it different from Vim? And why should I care?
Feb 3, 2015
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122
How to join lines without producing a space?
Feb 5, 2015
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111
How to edit binary files with Vim?
Feb 4, 2015
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103
How do I debug my vimrc file?
Feb 19, 2015
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102
How do I debug my vimrc file?
Feb 19, 2015
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How can I get vim to stop putting comments in front of new lines?
Feb 19, 2015
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Detect OS in Vimscript
Mar 16, 2015
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Let's think of a creative name for our chatroom
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What is considered to be vi?
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Who are our nominees for the moderator positions?
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:wq, or, giving up mod status
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Which questions led to the creation of a new plugin?
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Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio
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Is it reasonable to ask a potential employer for samples of their code and/or employee contact information, to determine if I want to work there?
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Asked to sign an NDA after a one-month internship
132
Co-worker regularly placing his foot on my desk - how to get out of the situation?
122
Python 3 TypeError: must be str, not bytes with sys.stdout.write()

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