Dollar sign eye will cause the Vee Eye text editing program to insert the subsequent text at the end of the current line in a text file (in this hypothetical instance the title of the article), until it encounters the special colon operator, at which point the double you and queue letters will cause the program to write those changes to disk, and then quit.
If you were SSH'd into a Linux machine serving static HTML to the world-wide web, those are the keystrokes you might issue to the vi text editor, at the command line, to modify the line in a particular file, responsible for the title of the article on this site. The user, dang, has changed the title of this article, as a moderator action, in an effort to clarify the nature of this article, and deflect any advocacy of organized crime away from Hacker News, leaving that part of the social commentary in Vice's hands, as is the tendency for most articles that Vice magazine publishes.
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If you were SSH'd into a Linux machine serving static HTML to the world-wide web, those are the keystrokes you might issue to the vi text editor, at the command line, to modify the line in a particular file, responsible for the title of the article on this site. The user, dang, has changed the title of this article, as a moderator action, in an effort to clarify the nature of this article, and deflect any advocacy of organized crime away from Hacker News, leaving that part of the social commentary in Vice's hands, as is the tendency for most articles that Vice magazine publishes.
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