Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[Kevin D. Clark]

mod+gnhlug at std.com (Michael O'Donnell) writes:

> Heh.  All it takes is one additional backslash:
> 
>           :'a,.! perl -pe 's/^/\#/' 
> 
> 
> There - that wasn't so bad, now - was it?

No, that's reasonable.

I hesitate to mention this, because I'm about to make an unfair
comparison, but I have encountered versions of vi that wouldn't
let you escape these magic characters -- no amount of escaping would
do the trick   (IIRC, the vi that comes with Solaris suffers from
this). 

So, if vim acts more reasonably here, then I'd have to say that this
is a good thing.

Regards,

--kevin
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