Yesterday, I sent a message to the Vim development mailing list. I've been using GVim to manually edit the contents of a stream mid-pipeline:
cat testfile | sed '/[0-9]:\|=/d' | awk '{print $2 ", " $1}' |\
sort | cat -n | gvim -V0 - | grep -v "Vim:" | sed 's/1/*/' > test
Unfortunately, Vim emits a message when it reads from stdin, so I have to use grep -v to pull the notification out of the output stream after closing GVim. Bram responded with an explanation and some suggestions. I'll finally be able to fix the problem by making the message go to stderr. Piping through Vim will be less of a hassle now.
Tags: shell, vim
Posted on 2005-03-23
Once again, I have refined the English language. Prepare yourself for the spiffyness of my latest creation: 'soo'.
In the sentence "The mutant wombats are so evil." the word 'so' is used differently than it is in the sentence "the mutant wombats escaped, so we should probably run like crazed gophers and pray they dont eat our spleen."
In one case the word is used to exaggerate a property, and in the other case it's used to indicate a causal/conditional kind of relationship. In the case where it exaggerates a property, it should be spelled 'soo', which would be orthogonal with the distinction between 'to' and 'too'.
After I shared this discovery with Ainalda, he informed me that his ConLang group has been endevouring to come up with a word to describe the linguistically unimaginative. I suggested 'langlubber'.
Tags: language
Posted on 2005-03-03
