Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[Bob Bell]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:08:46PM -0500, Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Suppose I decide that this looks horrible, and I want to clean this
> > > up.  In Emacs I can type a few keys and transmorgify things thusly:
> <snip>
> > > Out of curiosity, does VIM do anything like this?
> 
>     I'm not sure I even understand what is being asked (I missed the
> original email).

    Caught the original message.  I'm not sure how I would handle this.
I suppose I would probably pipe the selected text through an external
filter.  I don't know if there's a way more internal to Vim or more
direct, but part of the vi methodology is integrating with external
programs.

-- 
Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com>
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