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Just tried Org-mode today (discuss.online)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Always heard about org mode but was intimidated by emacs when I could barely manage vi/vim (sorry guys). Installed a plugin for org-mode for Sublime Text today and... shit, why didn't I try this sooner?

I have thousands of text files with horrible organization, thrown around multiple directories, no common naming scheme, no hierarchy, no unified notation, just ramblings and a barely marginal attempt at organization using === as title markers. I have links and ideas buried deep and I didn't want to use a third party tool "just for managing text".

Well, my eyes are open, and thus I'm euphoric, enlightened by its brilliance. I must rewrite all my stuff in org-mode.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://web.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html maybe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's the one! I learned vi with that website. Turned me into a big fan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity, do you know of a good resource for learning awk, sed, and grep?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are two really good O'Reilly books: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sed-awk/1565922255/ and https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-regular-expressions/0596528124/ (regex in general)

-- not sure if these are still available as standalone pdfs; but back in the day I worked through them in part, and they were extremely helpful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/manish-old/ebooks-2/blob/master/O'Reilly%20-%20sed%20_%20awk%202nd%20Edition.pdf

https://github.com/pengbo-learn/books/blob/master/Mastering%20Regular%20Expressions%203rd%20(Friedl-2006).pdf