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VIM: Preserve File Date with Touch

September 17, 2018

I had a single file I needed to modify but didn’t want to modify the date of the file. It was a minor change to the file, so I wanted to maintain the file date for posterity. In any case, I learned the vim does not provide this functionality, but touch would and quite easily. With that said, I am…

VIM: Join Lines

June 7, 2018

I had a document where I wanted to join every other line. I tried several approaches on a Windows box using Cygwin but only one worked with a couple variations. Using the vim editor. This is a new trick to me, and wanted to jot it down before I forget about. The file looked something like this. One approach was…