[RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 113, Issue 2

[Michael Doob]

On 14-05-13 12:00 PM, roundtable-request at muug.mb.ca wrote:
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>     1. The Oldest Rivalry in Computing (John Lange)
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> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:42:28 -0500
> From: John Lange <john at johnlange.ca>
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> Subject: [RndTbl] The Oldest Rivalry in Computing
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> This mailing list is the only place I can think of where I could possibly
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> "Emacs and Vi have been battling for text-editor supremacy among
> programmers for 40 years."
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> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/05/oldest_software_rivalry_emacs_and_vi_two_text_editors_used_by_programmers.html
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Note that the author's vi example to put quotes around lines:

%s/\(^\|$\)/\"/g

only works if ^ .ne. $, that is, the line is nonempty.

(Sorry, mathematicians just love to point out things like this).

Cheers,
Michael

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Michael Doob                    Telephone: (204) 474-9796
Department of Mathematics       Fax: (204) 474-7606
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