Ever wondered when Easter would happen? Now Vim (version 7 or later) can tell you. I know it's the wrong season, but I found an algorithm on Wikipedia (from an anonymous author, dated 1876, and itself elaborating on an algorithm by Gauss) and decided it would be easy to program that in Vim script.
So I wrote a little autoload script, tried it, and when it gave obviously wrong answers I finally found out (not easily) that I had forgotten a pair of parentheses. Now it does what I want: easter#date(year), where year is a year number, returns a Dictionary which is either empty (if the input was invalid; in that case it also produces a nasty :msgerr to tell you what error was found) or else contains the keys 'year', 'month' and 'day' with an integer value for each of them: https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5878 Known limitation: the input must be an integer (or a String or Float which will be converted to an Integer) > 1582, and only _Gregorian_ Easter dates are produced. If you want to compute Julian (Orthodox) Easter, or Pesach, or the Chinese New Year, or something else, go ahead and write them: they are not the purpose of this script, which "does one thing, does it predictably, and doesn't try to do a lot of other things on the side". Have fun! Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAJkCKXuSGy%2BtbhuvM3C5XszYLTXv1q%3DeZ%3DB60-Vp4pGK3nDNxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
