Quickly filtering copy-pasted lines with Regex and VIM
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There are often times when there's some structured text that I want to filter in an editor. For example, I might copy and paste an html table with 3 columns into the editor when I really just want the information from one column. By far the fastest way I've found to do this when the text is coming from the clipboard is VIM.
Here's how I grabbed just the handles out of a Twitter thread.