From: W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sed question (OT) (OT) (OT) (OT) (OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)(OT)
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:14:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEB2D1D.7050402@conducive.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.64.0910300737520.23231@malasada.lava.net>
Tim Newsham wrote:
>> Call me a Dinosaur, but - so long as it is ASCII or EBCDIC it is
>> relatively trivial to implement that in hardware AND NOT have the
>> issue of altering any but the first two words AND NOT have issues
>> where there is only one word or a numeral or punctuation or
>> hidden/control character rather than alpha.
>
> You should have added an extra "(OT)" to the subject line.
> I'm adding a few more just to be fair.
>
>> Could have built it in less time than this thread has been running...
>
> then what have you been doing all this time?
>
>> Bill
>
> Tim Newsham
> http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/
>
>
Honestly?
Trying to determine what a valid USE for capitalizing exactly the first 'n'
words on a line might be.
Especially as it calls for ONE or TWO but never THREE or more.
Document 'sideheads', maybe??
- but those may not be limited to 2 words.
The need is as puzzling as some of the solutions..
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-30 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-29 15:41 [9fans] sed question (OT) Steve Simon
2009-10-29 16:06 ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-10-29 16:33 ` Iruata Souza
2009-10-29 16:42 ` Lorenzo Bolla
2009-10-29 16:09 ` W B Hacker
2009-10-29 18:52 ` Jason Catena
2009-10-30 13:35 ` Eris Discordia
2009-10-30 13:39 ` Eris Discordia
2009-10-30 17:30 ` W B Hacker
2009-10-30 17:39 ` [9fans] sed question (OT) (OT) (OT) Tim Newsham
2009-10-30 18:14 ` W B Hacker [this message]
2009-10-30 15:29 ` [9fans] sed question (OT) dave.l
2009-10-30 20:53 ` Noah Evans
2009-11-11 12:32 ` frankg
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