RE: Silly Question

2007-04-11 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
Vowels are a problem. Unless you have an escape in your name, a, i and o are boring letters. I know someone named Veerle and her name is actually quite destructive, overwriting an entire line with l. What's the most interesting name anyone can find, and also the most damaging? I think my friend

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-11 Thread Tim Chase
Vowels are a problem. Unless you have an escape in your name, a, i and o are boring letters. I know someone named Veerle and her name is actually quite destructive, overwriting an entire line with l. What's the most interesting name anyone can find, and also the most damaging? I think my friend

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-11 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Tim Chase wrote: Vowels are a problem. Unless you have an escape in your name, a, i and o are boring letters. I know someone named Veerle and her name is actually quite destructive, overwriting an entire line with l. What's the most interesting name anyone can find, and also the most

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-11 Thread Phil Edwards
On 4/11/07, Gene Kwiecinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the most interesting name anyone can find, and also the most damaging? I think my friend :1,$d would win that particular contest... I was going to make a joke about my middle name being :!chmod -R 0 / and causing confusion as a

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-08 Thread fREW
On 4/7/07, Matthew Winn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:37:30 -0400, Mitch Wiedemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unlucky enough to have 'i' as the second letter in both my first and last names... So I get a jump to the middle of the screen, or to the first word in the

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-07 Thread Matthew Winn
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:37:30 -0400, Mitch Wiedemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unlucky enough to have 'i' as the second letter in both my first and last names... So I get a jump to the middle of the screen, or to the first word in the line, and then boring ol' text insertion... I'm

Silly Question

2007-04-06 Thread Dudley Fox
Has anyone else heard of the vi name game? I was talking to an old crusty developer, and he said they used to open a random (unimportant) text file in vi. Then before typing in their name (and only their name, no going into insert mode first), they would have to guess what their name would tell

RE: Silly Question

2007-04-06 Thread Max Dyckhoff
-Original Message- From: Dudley Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 8:50 AM To: vim@vim.org Subject: Silly Question Has anyone else heard of the vi name game? I was talking to an old crusty developer, and he said they used to open a random (unimportant) text file

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-06 Thread Mikolaj Machowski
On piątek 06 kwiecień 2007, vim@vim.org wrote: Has anyone else heard of the vi name game? Sure :) Mikolaj just inserts kolaj at the beginning of middle line of screen. m.

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-06 Thread Silent1
brendon i lucked out, i just got errors :)

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-06 Thread Jason Keen
Jason joins the current line and the next, then insert son before the start of the appended line.

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-06 Thread Dudley Fox
even learned something new from a silly question. What a great mailing list! Enjoy, Dudley

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-06 Thread Yakov Lerner
Yakov (without quotes) inserts kov after the 1st char. Now, who won ?

Re: Silly Question

2007-04-06 Thread Mikolaj Machowski
know about the M command. I never needed it before. I even learned something new from a silly question. What a great mailing list! H and L are even more useful :) m.