True - and possibly for the same reasons. Written abbreviations for directions would be expected to work in both contexts for the same reason.
Klingon should be easy since, IIRC, it has the same unambiguous syntax as Lojban (or Loglan?). (Too bad Lojban isnât semantically unambiguous. âle blanu botpiâ means (ignoring possibilities for tense and number) âthe bottle which is associated in some way with bluenessâ.)
I like that Gostak. It reminds me of Stanislaw Lemâs story âTrurlâs Electronic Bardâ.
Mockles! Fent on silpen tree.
Mockles! Three a-feening!
Mockles, what begong to thee
in thy pantry dreaming?
Tell me about it! After Iâve been playing Nethack for a while, my touch-typing tends to be gibberish! (Nt tyiybgg ttoubg tebds ti be gubberubg.)
(I never use vi. shudder Emacs for me!)
I have books on emacs: talk about feature bloat.
I never use emacs. (shudder) Vi for me!
The old vi vs. emacs wars.
PS. An old professor that taught a c/Unix course I attended sometime in the last century forced us to try vi and I have been a fan ever since.
You donât have to use every feature(!) but I regularly discover that thereâs an easier way in Emacs of doing what Iâve been doing (and I occasionally write ELisp to do something, e.g., sorting the weirdly-formatted notes I make while playing Nethack).
Now, thatâs just mental cruelty
Pleaaaassseeee⌠NOT again the vi vs emacs flame !!!
Concerned regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
Well it used to be tiresome and distracting.
But kids these days donât even seem to care.
Why not, itâll be just like the old times
Iâm probably the oldest timer here.
FWIW, Emacs is steadily getting worse. cut-and-paste is under attack (obviously). my version sometimes wonât quit, and itâs always been annoying that X and C are next to each other. Thatâs really dumb.
In my experience, ânâ can be short for both ânorthâ and ânoâ depending on the situation.
When the standard prompt is shown (âwhat now,â what nextâ or similar) ânâ would be interpreted as âgo northâ. When a question is asked of the player - such as âDo you really want to quit (y/n)?â - then ânâ would be interpreted as ânoâ.
Displaying â(y/n)â makes it clearer what input is expected in these special cases.
Yes, I think thatâs a good technique, to change the prompt dynamically.
In a web form the placeholder
attribute does that very well.