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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Are you on which team: vim, nano, micro, er ed for you terminal based text editor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Changing from a distro that defaults to nano to another that defaults to vim... What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Been using it (not often beyond basics for home server container administration) for years but I always get confused with searching vs search and replace vs global search

/ (n for next instances)

:%s//

:g//p (grep was named after this one IIRC, Global Regular Expression Print)

And often I just use :%s to search and highlight all instances and don't press enter because I forget the others and I often have to search and replace for docker comppse snippets.