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Chris Arcand
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Chris Arcand's personal blog at chrisarcand.com covers programming. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Vim's new :cdo command”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on converting PCRE to Vim regex, alongside a Vim wiki page on Perl-compatible regular expressions. Commenters cite it as a reference for the Perl-to-Vim regex syntax differences.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Principal Engineer building Terraform at IBM / HashiCorp 👨💻 Formerly: Red Hat, NBC SportsEngine, RubyMN organizer. Once played the clarinet for a living, now making a living to play hockey. I make pointless connections to Minnesota as a Minnesotan does.
Most-linked posts?
- Vim's new :cdo command2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-18
What Hacker News says?
https://chrisarcand.com/perl-compatible-regular-expressions-... https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Perl_compatible_regular_expressi...
Comment linking /perl-compatible-regular-expressions-in-vim/
on “Ask HN: Automated tool to convert PCRE to Vim regex?”Submitted The Search For Class:0x00000027b59290 as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vim's new :cdo command as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted :cdo command in Vim as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inline scoped Ruby methods with Ctags as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Null Coalescing Operators and Ruby's Conditional Assignments as a story · 1 points
HN discussion