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Nathan Grigg
Personal blog · nathangrigg.netprogrammingproductivity
Nathan Grigg's personal blog at nathangrigg.net covers programming and productivity. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Reproducing Vim help as a fully cross-referenced PDF”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters point to this blog's post explaining a project that reproduces Vim's help files as a fully hyperlinked PDF. The linked post is the background for that PDF.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Reproducing Vim help as a fully cross-referenced PDF2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-09-16
What Hacker News says?
Probably would have been more helpful to link to the blog post explaining the project - http://nathangrigg.net/2013/09/reproducing-vim-help-as-a-ful... . It would be great if the top comments at least had a look at the PDF, and maybe read that blog post - the file is full of hyperlinks (that was the whole point), has a beautiful index viewable in the sidebar of Skim, and he made it because he wanted to read on his i…
Comment linking /2013/09/reproducing-vim-help-as-a-fully-cross-referenced-pdf/
on “Vim PDF Documentation”Submitted Vim PDF Documentation as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted Repeating tasks for TaskPaper as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reproducing Vim help as a fully cross-referenced PDF as a story · 2 points
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