VIndicated
VIndicated
Funny challenge... especially for Emacs and Windows users
^V in the standard gvim Windows installation is mapped to <paste>, so the challenge is slightly harder for the "Followers of Bill"
^V in the standard gvim Windows installation is mapped to <paste>, so the challenge is slightly harder for the "Followers of Bill"
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Re: VIndicated
You have C-q as an alternative.megabreit wrote:Funny challenge... especially for Emacs and Windows users :-)
^V in the standard gvim Windows installation is mapped to <paste>, so the challenge is slightly harder for the "Followers of Bill"
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Re: VIndicated
I don't see how it would be, since the author's name is displayed right when you start the program. Well at least that is true for gVim version 7.2 under Windows, which is what I'm running here.megabreit wrote:so the challenge is slightly harder for the "Followers of Bill"
I've opened now this challenge in a computer running Windows and I saw that information for this challenge is displayed differently so it can be a little harder for these users.
Windows : it$aeihea siibea nahxpasriweA m2ao2aahielhxpanA114.
Linux : it<Esc>$ae<Esc>ih<Esc>ea s<Esc>ii<Esc>bea na<Esc>hxpasr<Esc>iwe<Esc>A m<Esc>2ao<Esc>2aa<Esc>hiel<Esc>hxpan<Esc>A<CTRL-v>114.<Esc>
but if you have Windows you can see the second text by viewing the page's source code.
Windows : it$aeihea siibea nahxpasriweA m2ao2aahielhxpanA114.
Linux : it<Esc>$ae<Esc>ih<Esc>ea s<Esc>ii<Esc>bea na<Esc>hxpasr<Esc>iwe<Esc>A m<Esc>2ao<Esc>2aa<Esc>hiel<Esc>hxpan<Esc>A<CTRL-v>114.<Esc>
but if you have Windows you can see the second text by viewing the page's source code.
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With a name like VIndication, one would think the answer would be Bill Joy. I guess they should have called it VIMdication. Maybe that would have been too easy.
I must say I was wracking my brain against this one until I looked at the source. It's interesting that the <ESC> would display in some browsers (it didn't for me in Chromium on ubuntu, firefox on Backtrack or Safari on iPhone), because typically things inside <> are considered tags and not displayed.
Thanks to everyone who pointed me in the right direction without giving the answer away, you know who you are. I owe you a beer when I make it to Europe next....
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I must say I was wracking my brain against this one until I looked at the source. It's interesting that the <ESC> would display in some browsers (it didn't for me in Chromium on ubuntu, firefox on Backtrack or Safari on iPhone), because typically things inside <> are considered tags and not displayed.
Thanks to everyone who pointed me in the right direction without giving the answer away, you know who you are. I owe you a beer when I make it to Europe next....
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I'm pissed. I did this in VI without seeing the source, it was much harder lol.gunn4r wrote:With a name like VIndication, one would think the answer would be Bill Joy. I guess they should have called it VIMdication. Maybe that would have been too easy.
I must say I was wracking my brain against this one until I looked at the source. It's interesting that the <ESC> would display in some browsers (it didn't for me in Chromium on ubuntu, firefox on Backtrack or Safari on iPhone), because typically things inside <> are considered tags and not displayed.
Thanks to everyone who pointed me in the right direction without giving the answer away, you know who you are. I owe you a beer when I make it to Europe next....
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Yep. That really took me a long time until I saw the source code. Really a challenging one, espacially for Windows users.AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:I guess if the intention of the challenge is to show the <Esc> tags properly to anyone in any browser, then they would need to be encoded properly, i.e. <Esc>
Then again, maybe we are meant to look at the HTML sourcecode. I guess only virstulte or adum can tell us how it is supposed to be.