Programming Contest: Efficient Editor Usage

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 16, 2005 @08:35AM 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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vim-like? by keesh · 2005-03-16 08:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

Hardly vim-like... It's missing all the useful stuff like f F t T, all text objects and motions and all the modal stuff. These're the things that make vim so much more powerful than anything else.

But then, I guess "using a few simple manipulation commands" doesn't sound as sexy, eh?