Multiline Regex Search in VS Code

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:18:10 +0530

This is a picture of my notes, when I import them in from the Kindle.
And every time I have to corral them into some sort of structure or write a blog post, I needed to laboriously get rid of all the Kindle metadata with multiple searches (and replaces.)

I mean these lines

==========
Draft No. 4 (John McPhee)
- Your Highlight on page 27 | location 406-407 | Added on Sunday, 15 August 2021 12:43:15

But having learnt Regex about a year ago, I have been using it on and off and have come to appreciate the power it offers.
And I’ve been increasingly trying to solve all of my text search issues using regex, everywhere.¹

With a recent book, I managed to use regex to get rid of single lines all at once.
It still took me 3 sets of search and replaces though.
So today, I got lazier and curiouser and wondered if I could do all three lines together.
I was trying combinations of /g and /gs to somehow get the regex engine to span lines, but no dice.
A bit of web surfing led me to this post which told me that, all I needed to do was match newline literals \n
This led, to me tinkering and coming up with this search regex
==========[\n\s]D.*[\n\s]-.*
Which led to …

matching everything in one fell swoop!
All hail the power of regex!

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Programming, Day 3, Setting up VS Code to launch from the Command Line in OS X

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 08:44:42 +0530

Problem:
I wanted to launch Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code from the command line at will.

What I did:

Launch VS Code
Hit cmd-shift-p (⌘-⇧-P)
Begin to type Shell … and choose and execute “Shell Command: Install ‘code’ command in PATH”
Launch Terminal and check to see if VS Code launches by typing the code command.
Edit the .bash_profile file in the home folder and change the $EDITOR variable like so …

# Setting Visual Studio Code as $EDITOR
export VISUAL=code
export EDITOR="$VISUAL"

And that should just about do it.

Restart the terminal or source the bash_profile file for changes to take effect.

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Multiline Regex Search in VS Code

Programming, Day 3, Setting up VS Code to launch from the Command Line in OS X