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[gothwalk]

Me: You need to find that, but it varies? OK, see that bit, that's always beside it and always the same. So just yank that and grep for it.

Co-worker: Huh?

Memo to self - do not use unix terms when talking to windows people. All it gets is funny looks.

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[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I learned vi first in freshman year to compose HTML. Then I found emacs. And I've had torrid relationships with both editors in the past several years.

Emacs just made it easy to learn the kill ring and the yank comand. vi was good for bare bones environments.