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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
...it would look like this. Prepare to be scar{1,2}ed, perhaps forever.
http://blogs.sun.com/marigan/entry/how_the_vi_editor_would
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Kapil Hari Paranjape [kapil at imsc.res.in]
Hello,
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> http://blogs.sun.com/marigan/entry/how_the_vi_editor_would
For a moment all I saw were the comments. I then realised that this would need a graphical browser --- even descriptions of Windows need graphics ;)
Regards,
Kapil. --
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:09:16AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> Hello, > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Ben Okopnik wrote: > > http://blogs.sun.com/marigan/entry/how_the_vi_editor_would > > For a moment all I saw were the comments. I then realised that > this would need a graphical browser --- even descriptions of Windows > need graphics ;)
[laugh] Recently, my brother sent me a joke that involves getting the reader to click-and-drag over an area of the HTML in the email - essentially, something like this:
<p> Dear computer user: </p> <p> It's a little-known secret that your mouse gets out of tune over time; this causes a number of computer problems. Fortunately, this is easy to solve: all you have to do is recalibrate it by clicking immediately to the right of the first '*', below, holding down the button, and moving your mouse until you reach the second '*'. </p> <h1>* <font color='white'>You'll believe anything, won't you???</font> *</h1>
Obviously, dragging a mouse over the white-on-white text will highlight the "hidden" text. However, since I use Mutt, and get my HTML as plain text, I had to pull up the source to 'get' the joke. My brother was a bit aggrieved, but I was even more highly amused at the failure mode than I would have been at the (rather weak) joke...
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Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
On 24/03/2008, Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...it would look like this. Prepare to be scar{1,2}ed, perhaps forever.
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/marigan/entry/how_the_vi_editor_would
Ah, but surely:
-- Thomas Adam
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:25:54AM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On 24/03/2008, Ben Okopnik <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...it would look like this. Prepare to be scar{1,2}ed, perhaps forever. > > > > http://blogs.sun.com/marigan/entry/how_the_vi_editor_would > > Ah, but surely: > > http://vigor.sourceforge.net/ > >
And of course its companion, Vimgor.
http://vim.sourceforge.net/vimgor/
I remember when Vigor first came on the scene (quite a few years ago, now.) You could hear the cheering - and the bogglement that someone actually had that much time to waste on a cute joke - of the UserFriendly fans all over the Net.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *