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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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For those last two, an...Submitted by Rich (not verified) on August 18, 2005 - 10:01am.
For those last two, an easy way to make that permanent is putting the following at the end of your file: /* vi: set ts=2 sw=2 foldmethod=marker: */ The ts and sw just set the tab stop and shift width (if you use expandtab). Marking is key, and something I always forget about. I just always find myself using text files when all is said and done. Sadly beagle is a bit unstable (and Kat is seemingly unusable) at this point, but soon enough we'll have spotlight/gdsesque on free oses. On the topic of markup, I'm not quite sure why it is necessary. I've never been fluent in markdown or textile or whatnot, as it just seems superflous to what really should be happening. » POSTED IN:
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