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Programming Contest: Efficient Editor Usage

Posted by timothy on from the colon-w-colon-q dept.

Fred (a.k.a. The POTM-MASTER) writes "Anyone can write editors, but it's surprisingly hard to write a program to USE an editor. This latest Programming challenge asks you to write a program that will change one block of text into another using a simple set of 'vim-like' editor commands." (Find the details here.) "Deadline is May 31, 2005 so you've got plenty of time. The POTM is the 'Programmer Of The Month' contest - newly revived and active with about 1000 folks registered for the forums. It is completely for fun - unsponsored and prize-less except for the fame!"

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  1. pff... by grub · · Score: 3, Funny


    Just use sed, like a RealMan.

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    1. Re:pff... by grub · · Score: 2, Funny


      The winning entry will probably have a nice, eye-candy laden window with animated spinning skulls, crappy MIDI music (just like a geocities page) with an Expect backend. Naturally the name will be called "Kreplace" or "GNU/Instead" or something equally stupid.

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  2. Watch out by slapout · · Score: 2, Funny

    "'vim-like' editor commands"

    Oh no. Don't tell the emacs people about this...

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