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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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Merlin, for jumping around in...Submitted by PlasticBoy (not verified) on August 19, 2005 - 5:14am.
Merlin, for jumping around in files in Vim you should probably consider Vim's built-in helptags system. Basically, you can use the same tag format as the Vim help files and jump around with the ":ta {tagname}" command. It would be pretty easy to make macros to move the current line to a certain tag. For more info do ":help :helptags" and ":help write-local-help" in Vim. Also, the people on the Vim mailing list[1] are incredibly helpful. » POSTED IN:
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