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14 Dec 12:49, 2015
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Start Vim in a terminal, then run the Most Important Vim Command™.
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Restart Vim in a terminal. Before typing anything else, type the string “This is a Vim document.” What happened? Confusing, right?
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Use the Most Important Vim Command™ to recover from the previous exercise and return to the normal command-line prompt.
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Use the arrow keys to navigate to Line 4 in the file from Listing 1.3.
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Use the arrow keys to go to the end and then the beginning of Line 4. Cumbersome, eh?
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Go to the beginning of Line 4 by using the command mentioned in the text.
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Go to the end of Line 4 using the command mentioned in the text.
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Define an alias
g for the commonly used case-insensitive grep grep -i. What happens if, after making your changes and hitting ESC, you issue the command :wq instead of :w and :q separately?
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You may recall the
curl command from Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous, which lets us interact with URLs via the command line. Define get as an alias for curl -OL, which is the command to download a file to the local disk (while following any redirects encountered along the way).
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Use the alias from the previous exercise to execute the command shown in Listing 1.6, which downloads a longer text file for use in Section 1.6.
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Using Vim, open a new file called
foo.txt.
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Insert the string “A leopard can’t change it’s spots.” (Figure 1.10).19
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Using the
x key, delete the character necessary to correct the mistake in the line you just entered. (If you can’t find the error, refer to Table 1.1.)
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Use
dd to delete the line, then use p to paste it repeatedly into the document.
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Save the document and quit using a single command. Hint: See the first exercise in Section 1.4.1.
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With
sonnets.txt open in Vim, move down three screens and then back up three screens.
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Go to the end of the file. What is the last line of the final sonnet?
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Navigate back to the top to change the old-style name “Shake-speare” on Line 1 of
sonnets.txt to the more modern “Shakespeare”, and save the result.
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Use Vim’s search feature to discover which sonnet contains references to Cupid, the Roman god of love.
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Confirm that
18G goes to the final line of the first sonnet. What do you suppose that command does? Hint: Recall that 1G goes to the beginning of the file, i.e., Line 1.
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Open
sonnets.txt.
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Go to the last line.
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Go to the end of the last line.
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Make a new line that says “That’s all, folks! Bard out. <drops mic>”. Make sure to move the cursor one space to the right so you don’t drag the final period along.
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Write out the file.
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Undo your changes.
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Write out and quit the file.
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Reopen the file and type
2620dd.
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Realize that you just deleted the entire file contents, and apply the Most Important Vim Command™ to ensure that no damage is done.
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Download and install either Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, or Atom.
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If using Atom, go to Atom > Install Shell Commands to enable the
atom command at the command line (Figure 2.1).
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If using Sublime Text, set up the
subl command by Googling for “sublime text command line” and following the instructions for your system. Apply your technical sophistication (Box 1.2) if you get stuck. You might also find it helpful to skip ahead to Section 3.3 to learn about how to configure your system’s path.
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Open a new document called
lorem.txt and fill it with the text shown in Listing 2.2. Does the result have syntax highlighting?
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Open a new document called
test.rb and fill it with the text shown in Listing 2.3. Does the result have syntax highlighting?
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By applying the methods in Box 1.2, find an online Markdown previewer (i.e., one that runs in a web browser), and use it to look at a preview of
README.md. How do the results compare to Figure 2.11?
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In your text editor, how do you move left and right one word at a time? Hint: On some systems, the Option key ⌥ might prove helpful.
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In
README.md, move to the second-to-last nonblank line using whatever technique you wish. Then move to the third word from the beginning of that line.
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What is the command to go to a particular line number? Use this command to go to line 293 of
sonnets.txt. What do rough winds do?
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By moving to the last nonblank line of
sonnets.txt and pressing ⌘→ followed by ⌘←, show that ⌘← actually stops as soon as it reaches whitespace, with the result shown in Figure 2.17. How do you get to the true beginning of the line?
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Select Shakespeare’s second sonnet by clicking at the beginning and then Shift-clicking at the end.
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Select the first line in the file by moving to the beginning with ⌘↑ and pressing ⇧⌘→ (or the equivalent for your system).
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Delete the selection in the previous exercise (using the Delete key).
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Select the word “document” in
README.md and replace it with “README”.
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Select the entire document, Copy it, and Paste several times. The result should look something like Figure 2.27.
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Select the entire document and Cut it. Why might this be preferable to deleting it?
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Select and copy the couplet at the end of Sonnet 1 and paste it into a new file called
sonnet_1.txt. How do you create a new file directly in your editor?
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Use Undo repeatedly until all the changes you’ve made to
README.md have been undone.
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Using any technique you want from Section 2.4, select the word “written” in
README.md and delete it, then undo the change.
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Redo the change from the previous exercise, then undo it again.
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Make an edit somewhere in
sonnets.txt, then scroll around so you get lost. Use the Undo/Redo trick to find the cursor again. Then keep using Undo to undo all your changes.
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Undo the pasting in of source code to restore the file to its original state.
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Figure out how to “Save As”, then save
README.md as code_example.md, paste in the code example, and save the file.
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The default Bash prompt for my command-line terminal appears as in Listing 2.5, but I prefer the more compact prompt shown in Listing 2.6. In Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous, I promised to show how to customize the prompt in Learn Enough Text Editor to Be Dangerous. Fulfill this promise by editing the
.bashrc file to include the lines shown in Listing 2.7. Source the Bash profile as in Listing 1.5 and confirm that the prompt on your system matches the one shown in Listing 2.6. (To learn how to customize the prompt using Z shell, the current default shell on macOS, see the Learn Enough blog post “Using Z Shell on Macs with the Learn Enough Tutorials”.)
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In Section 2.3.1, we found Sonnet 18 by going directly to line 293, but of course I didn’t search the file line by line to write the exercise. Instead, I searched for “shall I compare thee”. Use your text editor to search for this string in
sonnets.txt. On what line does “rosy lips and cheeks” appear?
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The example in this section shows one of the pitfalls of mechanically finding and replacing text: we’ve ended up with the ungrammatical result “a example” instead of “an example”. Rather than fix this by hand, use find and replace to replace “a example” with “an example” in your document. (Although in the present case there’s only one occurrence, this more general technique scales up to documents much longer than our toy example.)
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What is the keyboard shortcut in your editor for finding the previous match?
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What is the keyboard shortcut to replace in the current buffer (file)? How does this differ from the keyboard shortcut for simply finding?
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Add some more lorem ipsum text to
README.md using a tab trigger.
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Add another occurrence of the word “consectetur” using autocomplete.
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Write the sentence “As Cicero once said, ‘quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris’.” with the help of as many uses of autocomplete as you want.
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Create the file
foo.rb, then define the class FooBar (Listing 3.3) using a tab trigger. Hint: Chances are the trigger is something like cla⇥.
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Referring to Listing 3.4, add the definition of
bazquux using the def⇥ trigger, then add the final line shown by using autocomplete to type FooBar and bazquux. (Type the interstitial .new. by hand.)
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Using tab triggers and autocomplete, make a file called
greeter.rb with the contents shown in Listing 3.5.
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By cutting and pasting the text for the
hello definition and indenting the block, transform Listing 3.5 into Listing 3.6.
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Let’s test the functionality of
ekill by making a process that hangs and applying the lessons from grepping processes in Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous. We’ll start by opening two terminal tabs. In one tab, type tail to get a process that just hangs. In the other tab, use ps aux | grep tail to find the process id, then run ekill <pid> (substituting the actual id for <pid>). In the tab running tail, you should get something like “Terminated: 15” (Figure 3.20).
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Write an executable script called
hello that takes in an argument and prints out “Hello” followed by the argument. Be sure to chmod the script so it can run properly. Hint: Use the echo command. Bigger hint: Bash scripts interpolate dollar-sign variables into strings, so the $1 variable from Listing 3.8 can be used in a string like this: "Hello, $1".
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What is the keyboard shortcut in your editor for toggling the tree view?
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What is the keyboard shortcut in your editor for splitting panes horizontally?
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In the Rails Tutorial sample app project, open the file
static_pages_controller.rb using fuzzy opening.
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Use global find to find all occurrences of the string
@user.
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Use global replace to change all occurrences of
@user to @person.
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Figure out how to change the syntax highlighting theme in your editor. Use the file from Listing 3.6 to confirm the change.
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Use a regex match to annotate all function definitions with
# function definition as described in the text.
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If using VSCode, set up the
code command by Googling for “visual studio code command line” and following the instructions for your system.
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