Vim and pseudorandom mail signatures (Was: Top/End of file not active with Ctrl-Home/Ctrl-End with vim on a gnome terminal)

On 17/02/10 14:41, Jean Johner wrote:
[...]
> I am delighted by Tony's foot citations. Each time different.
>
> Regards.
>

I use Vim (compiled with +clipboard, +viminfo and +windows) to generate
them, with the help of:

- a file of funny signatures from Bram's site, modified (IIRC) so that
each individual sig starts with a "dash-dash-space" separator
- the GNU "fortune" program

Both of these are optional, but if neither is present then of course no
funny signatures will be generated.

Here's the relevant snippet from my vimrc; I don't notice the
open-and-shut auxiliary window except by the disappearance of any
|more-prompt| that may be present beforehand.

---8<---
if has('clipboard') && has('viminfo') && has('windows')
" the above tests if Vim has clipboard support _compiled-in_
" we should actually test if the clipboard is _available_
" but that is a non-obvious thing on Unix Vim in console mode.
function Fortune()
" In order to remember them in the viminfo,
" the first two variables defined below
" must have names starting with an uppercase letter
" and containing no lowercase letters.
if !exists("g:FORTUNE")
let g:FORTUNE = 0
endif
if !exists("g:FORTUNECYCLE")
let g:FORTUNECYCLE = 5
endif
if !exists("s:sysFortunes")
let s:sysFortunes =
\ (system("which fortune") != "") && (!v:shell_error)
endif
if !exists("s:bramFortunes")
let s:bramFortunes =
\ filereadable(expand("~/fortunes.txt"))
endif
if s:sysFortunes && (g:FORTUNE || (!s:bramFortunes))
let @+ = "-- \n" . system("fortune -a")
elseif s:bramFortunes
new ~/fortunes.txt
silent 1;/^-- $/-1d +
$put +
wq
else
let @+ = ""
endif
let g:FORTUNE = g:FORTUNE + 1
if g:FORTUNE >= g:FORTUNECYCLE
let g:FORTUNE = 0
endif
return @+
endfunction
map <F5> :echo Fortune()<CR>
if &vi !~ '!'
set vi^=! " insert in front
" to avoid clobbering ,n<filename>
" which must be last
endif
endif
--->8---

Best regards,
Tony.
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