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Article #620762Re: Nostalgia
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:27
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 18:27
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On 2018-02-27, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote: > J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 26 Feb 2018 11:32:49 GMT, Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> >> >>> It depends on the context. For very local variables I tend to favor >>> one-letter names like i (for iteration), p, q (pointers), n and m >>> (quantities and sizes). >> >> I used to do that but realized that it's a bad habit for a variety of >> reasons. (Working in insurance and using APL has a lot to do with it >> I think). First, single letter variable names are hard to search on. That's always been a problem for me too. > /\<i\> > > will find the variable i (and not get a hit on the letter i when > part of a word) in vi. <tappity, tappity, tappity...> Omigod, you're right! Thanks. Gotta put that one in my toolbox right beside grep -w. >> So are variable names that form parts of common words. > > You need a better editor. A bit of searching took me to http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_patterns, which in addition to the above describes the asterisk trick. Wow. There's a lot more to vi[m] than meets the eye. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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