Sam, et al -- ...and then Samuel Padgett said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % % > To set my comments apart from others' I started using %_ (the ... % > within a few years all manner of quoting (most commonly : :_ | % > |_ $ but occasionally % and %_ just like me) abounded. % % These prefixes all make refilling paragraphs difficult in Vim.
Fine. I don't like people rewriting my text anyway, just like I don't
like to rewrite someone else's. I worked *hard* to ensure that none of
those characters ended up at the beginning of a line, and now look what
you've done...
%
% > I've simply kept it since then, and it's relatively unique and
% > still recognizable.
%
% Relatively unique is _bad_ for a quote character! ;-)
Maybe so :-)
%
% > Hey, at least mine is easy to match with $quote_regexp!
%
% Yes, but I choose not to since I detest false positives. ('%'
% functions as a comment character in many places.) This is the
Sure.
% same reason I don't keep ':' and '}' in $quote_regexp.
Fine and dandy. There are a lot of things I don't keep in mine, either.
%
% Sam
% --
% A whole population of identical-looking human beings? This chilling
% dystopian vision has already come to pass in the fall J. Crew catalog.
*snort*
:-D
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