On 18.05.12 17:25, Kent A. Reed wrote:
> On 5/18/2012 4:28 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> > BTW, now that we can't use EMC2 any more, and LinuxCNC seems longish
> > and awkward to type, I am tempted to start using LCNC.
> >
> It has seemed to me LCNC would be a good compromise if anyone starts
> tackling the gazillion occurrences of "EMC" scattered throughout the
> code. Not that I'm suggesting it be done, mind you:-)
Err, are we to be the group with no name? We didn't defend the one we
had, and now we seek to discard our new common banner. Granted, laziness
can be a sign of intelligence, i.e why not make things easier? To that
end, I use the following to type LinuxCNC with just one 'L ', in Vim:
$ grep CNC .vimrc
au BufNewFile,BufRead ~/Desktop/mutt-* iab L LinuxCNC
With that autocommand triggering only when composing an email, I'm still
free to write "the letter L " in other documents.¹
Granted, this particular Insert-mode abbreviation helps only Vim users,
but I'm sure that Emacs is also up to the task. If we have users of
less capable editors, then it is arguably enough to just type: L
What could be more efficient? On this list we will all know what it
means, and it won't be confused with any other LCLCs.
As for the web pages; why change them manually? Whack the html through a
one-line awk script, and 10,000 edits are done in a minute. (Perhaps
there's some complication preventing that, or it might have been done?)
Capitalising sentences, using punctuation, and briefly checking
spelling respects the readers time equally with our own. Using the
whole of our group's name is one additional courtesy which I'll continue
to offer.
Erik
P.S. Apologies to anyone displeased with my lack of enthusiasm for
putting the cart before the horse.
¹ To avoid losing a partially composed post, in the event of a reboot,
I've moved mutt's temporary directory from /tmp with this in .muttrc:
set tmpdir="~/Desktop"
(Given a default tmpdir, the autocommand would need: ~/tmp/mutt-* )
--
The truly lazy person puts in the time & effort to learn how to do
things the easy way and reaps the laziness benefits for years
afterwards. - Craig Sanders, on luv-main ML.
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