The Nineteenth Byte

Vim, 17 keystrokes For a long time, I've been wondering if a vim quine is possible. On one hand, it must be possible, since vim is turing complete. But after looking for a vim quine for a really long time, I was unable to find one. I did find this PPCG challenge, but it's closed and not exactly ...

Geobits

a goat got to oat

GeoHam

\o/

quartata

Oh crap, "a oat" :/

@Geobits Ah that works

Downgoat

@HelkaHomba I like your examples

Doorknob

@GeoHam Very nice :D

Geobits

12:58 AM

How about: longest grammatically and semantically correct sentence using only the letters [agot]

feersum

Go tag a toga, goat.

Geobits

Very nice (and a nudge that HH forgot another few ;)

GeoHam

Explanation: 'q'... 'qqq'... 'q'... 'qqqqq'... 'q' 'q' 'q'... 'q'

Helka Homba

@Geobits can words repeat?

Geobits

Ah crap. I have to say no to rule out things like a goat got a tag got a goat got a tag..., don't I?

Downgoat

1:00 AM

@Geobits a goat got a goat

@feersum >:| don't tell me what to do :P

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

@Geobits @GeoHam you should secretly switch profile pics/names and confuse people

Helka Homba

@Geobits toa?

Geobits

@HelkaHomba toga and tag at least

PhiNotPi

"tattoo" is a good word to use

Helka Homba

Oh, duh. I even wrote toga on my scratch page

ETHproductions

1:01 AM

A goat oat got a toa toga tag to go. (invalid, two "a"s)

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

oh god i forgot geobits had superpowers

hm, "a oat" doesn't work

Geobits

@ETHproductions I had to rule out repeat words, so no double "a".

ETHproductions

argh, just noticed

GeoHam

@EᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏIʀᴋ And to complete the joke, @Geobits makes me a room owner!

:P

PhiNotPi

visca.com/regexdict type ^[agot]*$ (select not case sensitive) to get a word list

Helka Homba

1:03 AM

These are all the 11 (normal parlance) words, right: goat at go got tog ago a oat to toga tag

Geobits

@GeoHam That would be best, because I'd probably lose it for doing that. So we'd have exactly the same amount as we do now.

PhiNotPi

@HelkaHomba and tattoo

ETHproductions

At Ago, Oat Goat got a toa toga tag to go.

Helka Homba

@PhiNotPi no reusing letters

GeoHam

@Geobits Why would they un-RO you, but leave me?

Geobits

1:04 AM

@GeoHam For joke purposes? I dunno.

@HelkaHomba For your CMC sure. That's not what mine says.

PhiNotPi

@HelkaHomba I thought we just weren't allowed to reuse words.

GeoHam

@Geobits At that point we should just switch accounts. I'll start golfing in Java, and you need to start golfing in vim.

What's your password? Mine is thisIsASuperSecurePassword7

PhiNotPi

random music of the day: youtube.com/watch?v=KR8rQnNXarY

Downgoat

@GeoHam +1 for using a number. Very secure because of that

Geobits

@GeoHam Sorry, vim is a deal breaker. You're going to have to stay Hammy.

Thanks for the password though.

Downgoat

1:09 AM

@Geobits ;_; y u do dis

Helka Homba

CMC: Guess your chat message's id number without making any edits. e.g. you can see from the url this was message 32197998 (but I edited)

Geobits

@Downgoat Because I'd rather throw my keyboard through the wall?

@HelkaHomba 32198009

Downgoat

@Geobits if you can through your keyboard through it it's not a wall

Geobits

Damn, four off

feersum

@Geobits Toto got a tattoo to goat Agata.

Helka Homba

1:10 AM

blarg

Geobits

Damn those off-by-one errors, eh?

PhiNotPi

32198017

Helka Homba

32198023

32198025

PhiNotPi

32198023

Woo!

Helka Homba

@PhiNotPi Ding ding ding!

feersum

1:12 AM

We've played this game before, but it had better motivation when the goal was to reply to or one-box your own message.

Geobits

@feersum + ", too" ?

Helka Homba

You shoulda put : in front so you'd respond to yourself

feersum

@Geobits Eh, I was aiming for a good-sounding sentence rather than being as long as possible without being incorrect.

Geobits

Yeah, it definitely sounds better without it if alone. In the right context the longer one would work.

Helka Homba

@feersum Now do it in haiku form

Got a goat toga
G got to go tag a tog
Got a oat toga

Conor O'Brien

1:18 AM

@quartata tell me about it? :3

Helka Homba

Better cased:

got a Goat toga
G got to go tag a tog
got a oat toga

North Korea may just have tested their 5th nuclear weapon :S

Conor O'Brien

@HelkaHomba uh oh

feersum

Since when is i allowed?

Conor O'Brien

@Geobits wtf happened to your avatar

oh

Geobits

@feersum I have no idea how I didn't see thoose I's in there. WTF

Conor O'Brien

1:26 AM

you're good

Geobits

@ConorO'Brien It's further up the scroll

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