[plug] Extreme text editing

[J Michael Gilks]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 05:06 pm, James Devenish wrote:
>
> I'm not quite sure how vim or perl or split have any more or less
> intrinsic safety than dd in this situation, but anyway...with dd you
> would be free to copy a (say) 100Mb portion out of the middle of the
> file *twice* (one for backup and one for editing). Then, edit the
> excerpt and use dd to merge the edited excerpt back into the original.
> If it's not right, use dd to merge the unedited excerpt back into the
> original. Obviously this is complicated if the file is in use, but I
> don't know how vim gets around that, either.
>
My lack of guts to start carvingsomething out of the middle of a file, edit it 
then reinsert it.
Never done anything like that before, that I know of, so a big fear of the 
unknown
Is on my list to try out now that the job is finished.

Love
Mike.
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