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How vim Makes my Daily Life Easier

Luke Smith

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Tools and practiceVim, Emacs and editorsThe shell and command line

Luke Smith demonstrates how to perform bulk file renaming efficiently using Ranger and Vim.

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What people say. Recommended as a short and practical tutorial on bulk renaming files using Ranger and Vim.

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On “Running execl in a parent process?”

Yeah, perhaps i should’ve provided context. I’m basically trying to recreate the program demonstrated in this video: link to this video TL;DW it’s a program that uses Vim for bulk-renaming files in a directory. This purely for fun. I learned C this past semester in college, so I wanted to see if I could try using c to write this program, which like you’re saying, might be making it more unnecessarily difficult to do. If there is another way to achieve this using C, i’d appreciate some direction