2022-06-07 10:30:17 <veltas      > Only just now found out about grep command in vim
2022-06-07 10:30:37 <veltas      > I've been using read command to read grep into buffers the whole time
2022-06-07 10:30:50 <veltas      > Patience please, I'm slow
2022-06-07 10:30:58 <thrig       > g/re/p
2022-06-07 10:33:28 <veltas      > Not that grep lol
2022-06-07 10:40:32 <nmz         > no clue what that means
2022-06-07 10:40:41 <nmz         > what is grep in vim?
2022-06-07 10:47:12 <veltas      > grep in vim lets you search files for patterns and then brings up a window with all findings
2022-06-07 10:47:20 <veltas      > It's akin to search features in IDEs
2022-06-07 10:47:59 <veltas      > It's quite useful and I didn't realise it was built in nicely like this, I was piping raw command-line grep output to buffers
2022-06-07 10:48:13 <thrig       > g/re/p (ed command) -> grep (unix command) -> grep-in-vim (editor bloat)
2022-06-07 10:49:04 <veltas      > g/re/p is where the name 'grep' comes from, it refers to the ed/ex command 'g' that applies commands globally to anything matching 're', running `g/re/p` would (p)rint all lines containing 're'
2022-06-07 10:49:17 <veltas      > (for nmz's benefit)
2022-06-07 10:50:50 <nmz         > ah
2022-06-07 10:50:54 <nmz         > so its like x//
2022-06-07 10:51:26 <nmz         > 
ACTION uses vis

2022-06-07 10:53:08 <veltas      > So the unix utility grep is meant to be like a global regular expression print but on other files, rather than your buffer
2022-06-07 10:53:46 <veltas      > I don't know vis
2022-06-07 10:53:56 <veltas      > Still need to write my visual forth editor
2022-06-07 10:54:09 <veltas      > I know how I want to do it, it's just finding the time and motivation
2022-06-07 10:54:17 <nmz         > vis is much simpler to use than vim
2022-06-07 10:54:27 <nmz         > that's about all I can say about it
2022-06-07 10:54:58 <thrig       > vis x// looks like the ed g command
2022-06-07 10:55:12 <veltas      > Does it use multiline regexs?
2022-06-07 10:55:15 <nmz         > it comes from structural regex and from the plan9 acme editor
2022-06-07 10:55:37 <veltas      > I hated that when I tried sam, line-based is what I'm comfortable with
2022-06-07 10:55:41 <nmz         > g in vis/sam/acme is a conditional
2022-06-07 10:56:33 <nmz         > so x/function/g3/i/local /   would insert "local " to the third match of the hit function
2022-06-07 10:56:36 <nmz         > or something like that
2022-06-07 11:00:17 <veltas      > g is 'conditional' in ed/ex/vi in the sense that it selects which lines to act on
2022-06-07 11:00:26 <veltas      > But yeah it's more like x