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Carpetsmoker

13:35

@Doorknob Flowers!

Btw, what you're really saying here:
http://keyboardfire.com/blog/blocks-ruby-wrong/

Is that Ruby lacks first-class functions ... Instead, we have the silly blocks with the silly (different) scoping and Proc/Lambda with the silly `.call()` method ... :-/ It's one of the more annoying design flaws in Ruby, IMHO ...

The return/next schism is also annoying; I got that wrong many times when I started programming Ruby

There is no way to "fix" this in a compatible way, since just typing foo calls a function ... CoffeeScript (very Ruby-inspired) did do this better, by making the parens mandatory for a function call (foo())

Anyway ... This has nothing to do with Vim, just waiting for some tests to run :-)

Doorknob

Heh, I barely even remember writing that. All my blog stuff is from months ago. I should really... write more stuff. :P

Carpetsmoker

It's a year ago ... Not that old

Doorknob

For me, that's almost 10% of my life. :D

Carpetsmoker

Well

I can remember programming on the MSX with BASIC when I was 14

That's more than half my life ago

It's even more unreadable than I remember :-/

Doorknob

Well I can remember getting my first programming book... uhh, 4 years ago? And parts of when I first moved to Chicago, about 7 years or so. But not some insignificant blog post that I wrote in half an hour.

Carpetsmoker

13:48

Okay :-)

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user4704

16:39

@Carpetsmoker Would be improved by liberal application of Solarized. Or Zenburn. Or anything.

user4704

HyperTalk was my first programming language.

Carpetsmoker

16:59

@JoshPetrie Please set time machine to 1985 and fix it!

user4704

17:20

Heh.

user4704

Vim's code is pretty horrid.

Carpetsmoker

18:03

Well, it's C ...

user4704

It's horrid C.

Carpetsmoker

I only looked once, last week

But I've never really seen any non-horrid C ...

user4704

It exists, I've worked on a lot of projects that were mostly-C and where the C portions were way better than vim's code. A lot of it is due to the code's age, of course, but still.

Carpetsmoker

@200_success You fixed it wrong: vi.stackexchange.com/a/2197/51 ... It should be tab ball

user4704

I use a private build of vim with some patches Moolenaar won't accept.

Carpetsmoker

18:12

I think I've only worked with "old" C code like tcsh and some BSD stuff

Wut? Why?

user4704

I want listchars to show non-trailing whitespace, mainly

user4704

Like every other editor I use can.

Carpetsmoker

Can't you do that?

user4704

Nope.

Carpetsmoker

meh ...

user4704

18:14

listchars only supports trailing and non-breaking spaces.

Carpetsmoker

:%s/ /_/g :-)

user4704

(I mean, I think you could abuse matchadd to do it, like the "indent guide" plugins do, but that's gross and slow)

user4704

@Carpetsmoker Yeah but then it looks ugly. And is hard to undo unless you immediately flip it off ;P

user4704

Ultimately I am tinkering with writing my own modal editor, so vim is occasionally a nice place to muck around. Although only occasionally because sometimes finding the relevant point to modify things is more trouble than it is worth :D

Carpetsmoker

      nbsp:c        Character to show for a non-breakable space (character
                    0xA0, 160).  Left blank when omitted.

But not for a normal space :-/

user4704

18:17

Yup.

Carpetsmoker

How weird ... Why wasn't the patch accepted?

user4704

I dunno exactly. It kindof languished off in limbo. I don't think it was explicitly rejected, just turned around with "please add better docs," which were added, and then nothing.

user4704

I think it is still referenced in the TODO.txt, but it's been several versions so I'm not holding my breath.

Carpetsmoker

Ah, right ... I had something like that when answering a question just now

200_success

@Carpetsmoker Sorry for the bad edit.

user4704

18:20

Anyhow, writing one is a fun side project.

Carpetsmoker

I actually talked to Bram about this, he said he would really like to respond to every patch, but that it's very difficult to keep up :-/

Which I can imagine

user4704

Yup.

user4704

Running big open source projects is very draining.

user4704

I'd never want to do it alone.

Carpetsmoker

$ hg log | grep ^user | head | sort -u | wc -l
1

So that may be sort of the problem

user4704

18:22

heh

Carpetsmoker

Oops, there was still a head ... without it it's 4

oh, wait:
user: Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
user: Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]>
user: convert-repo
user: vimboss

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user4704

19:52

I didn't know ALLBUT was a thing until just now: vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2219/…

derobert

20:21

@JoshPetrie Wow, I thought I was the only one around! Did you use CompileIt! too? And write extensions to prank your family?

muru

Why do I have labels in Spanish? O.o

(presumably)

derobert

@muru browser language settings, maybe?

muru

Not that I can tell.. All variants of English

Does SE even support such translated labels?

I thought those only came on the lang-specific sites..

derobert

I just tested, putting Spanish in Chromium settings didn't change my profile language... Odd.

Which site was is this? I tried here.

muru

here..

I thought it my be some site-local thing

derobert

20:26

I guess ask on meta—that's weird. Must be some bug...

muru

Hmm. Happens on every one of my user profile pages.

only the tab headers.

Seth

Q: Portuguese tab names on profile page

A few minutes ago, when I viewed profile pages on my phone, the tabs were all in Portuguese: On the mobile interface: On the full site But it didn't happen on my desktop, and now it's back to normal. Other users report that the site is normal, but Seth says it's still happening, so I've ...

muru

I'll wait a day..

There it is..

derobert

Ah, its apparently not Spanish.

muru

Shows what I know.

derobert

20:29

Well, we got on the right peninsula, at least.

muru

Seth

haha

Yes, Spanish and Portuguese are very similar.

Carpetsmoker

@muru NO ONE EXPECTS THE INQUISITION!

muru

@Carpetsmoker Not when they're Portuguese. :P

derobert

20:45

@muru Who knows, they could be worse, maybe they have a very comfy chair.

And just think of the surprise factor!

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muru

22:42

A: How do I get Vim to be able to run both python and python3 on a Linux system in the same session?

I'm the current Vim maintainer for Debian and the person quoted in the referenced mailing list discussion. As you stated, this isn't a question about Vim. It's about building the software that Vim links against in a way that meets your needs. There's a more thorough discussion (at least for th...

One the one had: Yay! We got Vim's Debian maintainer fairly active here! \o\|o|/o/

On the other hand: Boo! It's a negative result. o(╥﹏╥)o

Doorknob

22:58

@Carpetsmoker What was the point of Revision 6 here?

Carpetsmoker

23:23

@Doorknob That's like, 3 weeks ago

Doorknob

@Carpetsmoker Lol, yeah, I just stumbled upon it and was wondering

Carpetsmoker

Well, it doesn't create a new paragraph, but just a line break

Making it clearer that it matches the preceding sentence ... Not sure why I made only that edit, but it looks like I made a bunch of edits in that post

Doorknob

Oh, okay. Didn't see that. That makes sense.

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