Re: [OT] Re: horse carcas flogging
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> from the secret journal of Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
> > On Friday 15 June 2001 04:41, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> > > I'm writing a program to edit ldap entries (part of my project to
> > > robustify libnss-ldap). The only vi command I know is :q, but the
> > > project is still called vildap. It will of course call $EDITOR or
> > > $VISUAL, because that's what people will expect it to do.
definitely!
> >
> > If the program has no particular relation to vi then why call it vildap?
> > Why not editldap?
It would have to use edit as its editor. But you might call it
this_program_edits_ldap_entries_and_does_not_use_vi instead.
> >
>
> It is specifically tuned to replace vi{gr,pw} and ch{age,fn}. I didn't like
> the sound of chldap, but maybe i'll consider it now.
That won't help you because I will write an editor called ch that will be
even more ugly than vi and you will have to use it ;-)
To be serious, I think vildap is better than chldap because there are some
programs called chXXX like chgrp, chown, chfn and none of them calls an
editor but the viXXX commands do. So vildap is more intuitive.
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