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"""This is done with the os module, which has lots of methods for handling files and dirs.

<http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html>

Effbot's page on the os module: <http://effbot.org/librarybook/os.htm>

The shutil module is useful here also: <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-shutil.html>

"""
import os

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def format_filename(s):
    """Take a string and return a valid filename constructed from the string.
Uses a whitelist approach: any characters not present in valid_chars are
removed. Also spaces are replaced with underscores.
 
Note: this method may produce invalid filenames such as ``, `.` or `..`
When I use this method I prepend a date string like '2009_01_15_19_46_32_'
and append a file extension like '.txt', so I avoid the potential of using
an invalid filename.
 

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vimgrep

• Vimcasts on vimgrep

• Uses native vim regexes (which are slightly different from the regexes used by grep, ack, ag, etc) so the patterns are the same as with vim's within-file search patterns.

You can do a normal within-file search first, then re-use the same pattern to

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Netrw Cheatsheet (Vim's File Browser)

See also:

• vinegar.vim, which makes - open netrw in the directory of the current file, with the cursor on the current file (and pressing - again goes up a directory). Vinegar also hides a bunch of junk that's normally at the top of netrw windows, changes the default order of files, and hides files that match wildignore.

  With vinegar, . in netrw opens Vim's command line with the path to the file under the cursor at the end of the command. ! does the same but also prepends ! at the start of the command. y. copies the absolute path of the file under the cursor. ~ goes to your home dir. Ctrl+6 goes back to the file (buffer) that you had open before you opened netrw.

To launch netrw: