actually, i went looking last night, vim is definately scriptable to your hearts content

Hmmm... Well, then, I'll have to move learning vim up into the part of my TODO list that might actually get done, then :-) It would be nice to have a second editor, for situations where Emacs isn't installed, especially for cases where I'm only working on a system for a short while, since installing Emacs takes so long...

i hope cperl-mode is smart enough that if that were: do { something(); } while <FOO # wouldn't get you do { something(); } while (<FOO>) {}

Yes, of course. And I only scratched the surface of the stuff it does for you.

but i think we've gone way OT.

I find it impossible to feel bad about going OT in a thread that started out as a place to rant.

for(unpack("C*",'GGGG?GGGG?O__\?WccW?{GCw?Wcc{?Wcc~?Wcc{?~cc'
.'W?')){$j=$_-63;++$a;for$p(0..7){$h[$p][$a]=$j%2;$j/=2}}for$
p(0..7){for$a(1..45){$_=($h[$p-1][$a])?'#':' ';print}print$/}
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