Comment by freedomben
2 years ago
People occassionally ask me what my best advice is for becoming a great programmer, and they are surprised when I say vim, bash (including for and while loops), and core tools like sed, grep, awk/cut.
When you know enough bash to (without having to look it up every time) write a command that filters (sed) and parses (awk, cut) and then loops (while, for) you will be amazed at what you can do and how quickly you can do it. Then add Vim and you can fly through tasks near the speed of thought.
In summary, I think you've made a great choice!
Never felt that text replacement is among the tasks I do often.
Oops typo, where I said "filters (sed)" I actually meant "filters (grep)"
Yeah text replacement isn't super common. I do use it every so often, but grep I use probably dozens of time per day
Interesting to know that my Z80, Amiga and PC demoscene skills were worthless until I got to use Xenix.