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Sam Stokes
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Sam Stokes writes Five Eights, a personal blog at blog.samstokes.co.uk about programming, career and writing. Since 2009, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Let's talk about confidence”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-28, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Let's talk about confidence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-23
What Hacker News says?
Same with the "i" (inner) command. (Technically it's a motion, not a command. "i" as a command just enters insert mode.) To elaborate, since this is one of my favourite vim features, say you have the following code: do_something_with(some + long * complicated * expression) ^ Say your cursor is where the caret indicates. Typing 'ci)' ("change inside parens") in normal mode will: * delete all the text between the two…
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