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Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items

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In comp.editors, Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 2026-07-07 23:55, Eli the Bearded wrote:
>> I would use a recursive macro for one large file, always formatted the
>> same, the two part nl and move for vi instead of vim or when formatting
>> makes a macro awkward, and a separate script (probably in perl) for a
>> regular operation.
> (I didn't understand your preference for Vi here, "instead of Vim".)

Sometimes the vi I have is not vim. I learned vi on Bill Joy vi, but I
found vim less buggy and switched to that as my preferred vi. But I log
into a lot of machines and not all will have vim installed. So, like
when I write shell scripts for sh instead of bash, I keep in mind the
non-improved ways to do things.

Elijah
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actually very, very rarely uses bash with bash-isms, but ksh-isms sometimes

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Vim - serial numbering of text items Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-07 11:24 +0200
  Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-07 21:55 +0000
    Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-08 02:50 +0000
      Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-08 07:02 +0200
    Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-08 07:34 +0200
      Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-08 06:05 +0000
  Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2026-07-08 17:22 +0000
    Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-07-08 21:17 +0000
      Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-09 03:36 +0200
        Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2026-07-09 19:02 +0000
        Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Lumin Etherlight <lumin+usenet@etherlight.link> - 2026-07-10 02:15 +0300
          Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-07-10 08:32 +0200
          Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-10 06:45 +0000
            Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Lumin Etherlight <lumin+usenet@etherlight.link> - 2026-07-11 03:23 +0300
              Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-11 22:04 +0000
      Re: Vim - serial numbering of text items Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2026-07-09 18:55 +0000

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