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by video_2 368 days ago
awk is nice in a lot of cases, especially for tabular data, but it's hard to deny vim's capabilities for handling plain text using text objects. For instance, you can't really tell awk to just "extract this entire sentence" like you can with vim.
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dsjkvf 368 days ago
You realize Vim will detect "sentence" based on exactly the same regex you can feed to awk? And "tabular data", dear me...
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video_2 368 days ago
Yes, but vicut is also faster on benchmarks. And you won't need to write out a whole regex.

Also, I'd love to see what this "sentence finding" regex of yours would look like. I'm sure it's way better than just typing "vis"

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dsjkvf 367 days ago
> Yes, but vicut is also faster on benchmarks

Than awk? I very, very doubt your 0.001-3s findings.

> I'm sure it's way better than just typing "vis"

Of course. Because you can use it everywhere, that's the whole point of learning regex, awk, or any other POSIX tool.

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