Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[Michael O'Donnell]

>OTOH, the fact that vi and vim seem to treat some characters as
>"magical" (like '#' and especially '%') really louses me up sometimes,
>at which point I scramble back to emacs.
>
>(I can't :'a,.! perl -pe 's/^/#/' in vim, for example)


Heh.  All it takes is one additional backslash:

          :'a,.! perl -pe 's/^/\#/' 


There - that wasn't so bad, now - was it?

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