[implementations-list] The "{Saved, Deleted} N characters" messages gone with `yy'/`dd'

Thu Apr 15 15:44:34 CEST 2010

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:49:21PM +0000, Vegard Øye wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:40:18 +0200
> > From: stepnem at gmail.com
> >
> >> Any tips on making that function shorter?
> >
> > (defun vimpulse-operator-message ...)
> 
> That's a great improvement -- from 50 lines to 34, through clever use
> of the `apply' form. I've modified it a little (in changeset
> [2c87f791af]) so that the block message reads "1 row and 4 columns",
> rather than the cryptic "1×4 characters".
> 
> > http://tinyurl.com/ycxdzml
> 
> I am /not/ including them in Vimpulse's Acknowledgements :P

Heh, oh well... It was more or less a joke, you know. If I was serious,
I would send in a proper patch -- we have Git now!

But I'm glad it did provide some inspiration ;-)

  Štěpán

P.S.: In your original function, I noticed the use of U+00D7
MULTIPLICATION SIGN, which I intentionally replaced with 'x' in my
version. Now it's gone for good, but in general I'd recommend against
using non-ascii characters in the code, unless necessary.

...oh, and "changeset" is Hg-speak, in Git it's "commit" :P