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Life inside one big text file
Merlin Mann | Aug 17 2005
O’Reilly Network Weblogs: Living in text files Giles takes one of the biggest, geekiest leaps you can—moving all of his stuff into a single big-ass plain text file.
This ambitious strategy—usually only whispered about among the lower geek echelons in which I dwell—seems to require a lot of confidence, planning, and familiarity with your favorite flavor of text editor. Mine’s currently TextMate, but, given what I’ve seen people like Danny do with Vim (and its incremental search-on-steroids, scripting functions, and endless shortcuts and configurability), this really reignites my resolve to hit the book and thumb through all my bookmarks again. So. Questions for people who are already living in one text file:
Spill whatever you like about your one-file system (and, curious folks, feel free to ask questions). Related Stuff 74 Comments
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So here's my question for...Submitted by Merlin on August 18, 2005 - 7:56am.
So here's my question for you Vim/one-file people. How do you handle your big-ass file's sections? That seems like the linch pin for having this work--to have a super-fast way to zip from section to section, complemented by a series of scripts for moving Options seem to include braces, which Vim likes finding, or even LaTeX headings, which, it's been noted make it easy to generate hierarchy in SubEthaEdit. I think Danny starts his section heading lines with a comma and a space. I suppose it could also be Markdown or Textile Headings, as well. I wonder if there's a plugin or script that can generate a Table of Contents for a Vim document based on headings. Between that and a bit of code folding, it seems like you could make any-sized document pretty manageable. » POSTED IN:
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