Replacing Reserved Characters with %s/old//new/g in Vim nixnib 0002.0 As a learning exercise, I decided to needlessly complicate a simple process and see what it showed me. I was writing this section from nixnib001 in markdown, using vim: #### nib (n.) "1580s, 'beak or bill of a bird,' Scottish variant of *neb*, 'beak or bill of a bird.' Perhaps influenced by *nibble* (v.). Meaning 'point' (of a pen or quill) is recorded by 1610s (*neb* in this sense is from 1590s).

Installing Go 1.23.6 on Rocky 9.5 Minimal nixnib 0001.0 sudo dnf --enablerepo=devel install wget tar wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.23.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.23.6.linux-amd64.tar.gz vim ~/.bash_profile export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin source ~/.bash_profile go version mkdir go && cd go mkdir src pkg bin test cd test vim test.go: import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("test") } go build test.go go run test.go ./test

nixnib nix (n.) The name Unics (Uniplexed Information and Computing Service, pronounced as “eunuchs”), a pun on Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computer Services), was initially suggested for the project in 1970. Brian Kernighan claims the coining for himself, and adds that “no one can remember” who came up with the final spelling Unix. from wikipedia nib (n.) 1580s, ‘beak or bill of a bird,’ Scottish variant of neb, ‘beak or bill of a bird.