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I use sublime as a copy paste buffer when I need excellent visual regex search and replace. Vscodes regex search has awkward semantics (or at least I don't know
by sour-taste 2y ago
I use sublime as a copy paste buffer when I need excellent visual regex search and replace. Vscodes regex search has awkward semantics (or at least I don't know them as well as sublimes) so I usually paste things into sublime, edit them with the regexes, then go back to what I was doing. My work has some extensions that only work in vscode so I'm stuck with it but it's good enough. I also never close sublime tabs and it persists them indefinitely with minimal memory usage, so I sometimes go back to grab things I was doing a few days ago. Definitely not the intended use but it works really well for me.
- carpo 2y agoThis is exactly how it use it too
- steinsgatezero 2y agoSounds like how I use Np++
- sander1095 2y agoIf you use windows, you can use WIN + V instead of using an editor for a copy paste buffer. WIN + V activates clipboard history, so you can see and select things you copied previously.
- nyantaro1 2y agoThis is the kind of thing I love HN for. Great tip!
- GrzegorzWidla 2y agoAnd on macOS an open source Maccy app is a great clipboard manager / buffer.
- iforgot22 2y agoI'm gonna start doing that, cause TextEdit can't even copy-paste reliably, and vim isn't super convenient for this either. Edit: Wow Sublime is the nicest GUI text editor I've ever seen