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Re: [PLUG] Re: VIM and ASCII
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Don't be "grumpy" and sorry if I ruined your whole
PLUG list experience. Please don't leave the group on
the account of my simple question.
Do a search for EXTENDED ASCII on google and I say the
first 748,000 results knew what I was talking about.
If you would please write to the list the correct
format for asking a question I would be greatful. If
you are unclear on someones question ask them to
elaborate don't tell them were the
"!@#$%^&*(),./;'[]\<>?:"{}|" characters are on the
keyboard. That is insolting to ones intelligence and
not helpful to anyone in the PLUG list.
I am on quite a few mailing list and know the kinds of
quesions that are recived to the groups. "How do I
write a program", "How do I write a virus", "What is a
computer" the normal newbie questions. Most can be
ansewered with a little reading or reasearch on there
own part. I for one try my best to find ansewers to
questions - Google, help, man, info, books, ect.. and
If I can't find anything I will turn to a list. Most
of the time someone will have had that same question
as you or know the ansewer and post it for you. Beign
sarcastic does not help anyone.
Your going to tell me that ì is not an extended ascii
symbol - it was the symbol I orginal asked about in my
first post on this topic.
Go Dragons!!!!
/\/\ a T t
--- "Paul L. Snyder" <plsnyder@drexel.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Matthew Ozor <mtozor@yahoo.com>:
>
> > You guys read into things too much and by doing so
> you
> > miss the simple question.
> >
> > When typing in VIM in -INSERT- mode all characters
> are
> > standard 0-127 ascii. I was asking how to type in
> the
> > EXTENDED ACSII codes 128-255. I didn't need to
> know
> > about setting different terminals, or all ISO
> > characters sets. *Using a missle to kill an ant*
>
> Because you didn't care about "pointless facts" you
> did
> not ask the question in a way that people who know
> the
> particular "pointless fact" that you want would know
> exactly which one you were looking for.
>
> The entire point of all these "missiles" and "books"
> is
> that "EXTENDED ASCII" is an extremely ambiguous
> term.
> I'm sure we're very sorry that we didn't magically
> know
> what you meant.
>
> > How hard would it be for someone to say -> CTRL-V
> x##
>
> If you had read my first message, perhaps you would
> have
> noticed that I said:
>
> "Alternately, you can use Ctrl-V to enter a
> character
> by numeric value."
>
> My mailer also showed a list of characters with
> diacritical marks. If you had specified that you
> were
> looking for ways to enter codepage 437 graphical
> characters, the inconsiderate entity that is the
> "PLUG
> list" would likely have provided advice that was
> closer
> to the information that you were trying to obtain.
>
> > I notice alot of that on the PLUG list. No need to
> > write a book when one sentence will do. If you
> don't
> > know the ansewer don't complicated the problem
> with
> > pointless facts.
>
> "If you don't know the answer..." Charming. If you
>
> had read the "pointless" messages instead of stewing
> over how they weren't providing the information that
> you so richly deserve, you might have noticed that
> they were being answered by people who actually know
> a fair amount about the topic, and that the way you
> were asking the question was ambiguous and
> incorrect.
> You could then have rephrased the question in a way
> that graciously clarified your query. Capitializing
> the word "EXTENDED" does not count as clarification,
> particularly when it follows a number of messages
> about different ways that "EXTENDED ASCII" might be
> understood.
>
> I've got to say that this makes me pretty grumpy. I
>
> subscribe to this mailing list to learn new things,
> and
> to help people. I _appreciate_ it when other people
> take the time and the trouble to share their
> knowledge.
> I try to take the time to figure out what people are
> asking, and to share the things that I have learned
> through my own experimentation. I often give more
> information than is strictly requested because I'm
> not
> just responding to the person asking the question -
> I'm sending a message that will be seen by all the
> subscribers to PLUG, and I hope that the information
> may be of interest to at least a few people on the
> list, knowing that those who aren't interested HAVE
> THE OPTION OF NOT READING IT!
>
> You're welcome.
>
> pls
>
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