On 13/05/2014 2:08 PM, Michael Doob wrote:
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:42:28 -0500 From: John Lange <john@johnlange.ca> To: "Roundtable, MUUG" <Roundtable@muug.mb.ca> Subject: [RndTbl] The Oldest Rivalry in Computing
This mailing list is the only place I can think of where I could possibly share this article:
"Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among programmers for 40 years."
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/05/oldest_software_riv...
John ... Note that the author's vi example to put quotes around lines:
%s/\(^\|$\)/\"/g
only works if ^ .ne. $, that is, the line is nonempty.
(Sorry, mathematicians just love to point out things like this).
Maybe this would work better... %s/.*/"&"/ It's a lot briefer, and IMHO, more obvious. Computer Scientists (and old-time vi aficionados) love to optimize things like this... :) -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil@muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609