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Doug Black
Personal blog · dougblack.io/words · on HN as dougblackprogrammingweb
Doug Black's personal blog at dougblack.io covers programming and web. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “A Good Vimrc (2014)”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Doug Black's posts on a good vimrc and on using vi mode in zsh. The linked posts are practical shell and editor configuration guides.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Good Vimrc (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-19
- A Good Vimrc2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-21
- Adding Vi To Your Zsh (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-14
What Hacker News says?
https://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html
Comment linking /words/a-good-vimrc.html
on “CIA malware and hacking tools”Submitted A Good Vimrc as a story · 355 points
HN discussionHi .. I couldn t do this .. Pressing "v" enables visual mode and only the text is selected. https://dougblack.io/words/zsh-vi-mode.html Above link explains the usage, but I couldn t use it for some reason even after setting EDITOR variable.
Comment linking /words/zsh-vi-mode.html
on “Use vi editor in shell”Submitted A Good Vimrc (2014) as a story · 298 points
HN discussionSubmitted A RESTful Micro-Framework in Go as a story · 234 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Vi To Your Zsh as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Good Vimrc as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Metaclasses in Python as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Good Vimrc (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Vi To Your Zsh (2013) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Good Vimrc as a story · 1 points
HN discussion