If Microsoft wrote 'vi'...

Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:15:00 -0400

...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

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Kapil Hari Paranjape [kapil at imsc.res.in]

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:09:16 +0530

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 ;)

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Kapil. --

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:29:54 -0400

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]

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:25:54 +0000

On 24/03/2008, Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net> 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/

-- Thomas Adam

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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:48:57 -0400

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:25:54AM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:

> On 24/03/2008, Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net> 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.

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