Sunday, March 1, 2015

Re: Pressing key 'T' prints 7 in VIM 7.4

On 2015-03-01 20:57, Charles E Campbell wrote:
> If your system persists in showing a "7" (not that I know what a
> leetspeak is), then its certainly due to your terminal setup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet_speak

A substitution of numbers for letters that share a similar shape,
also available as the "eleet" filter in the popular "filters" package
on Debian/Ubuntu. Filtering the first couple sentences of
Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court gives:

4 c0nn3ct1cut y4nk33 1n k1ng 4rthur'5 c0urt

1t w45 1n w4rw1ck c45tl3 th4t 1 c4m3 4cr055 th3 cur10u5
5tr4ng3r wh0m 1 4m g01ng t0 t4lk 4b0ut. h3 4ttr4ct3d m3 by
thr33 th1ng5: h15 c4nd1d 51mpl1c1ty, h15 m4rv3l0u5
f4m1l14r1ty w1th 4nc13nt 4rm0r, 4nd th3 r35tfuln355 0f h15
c0mp4ny--f0r h3 d1d 4ll th3 t4lk1ng. w3 f3ll t0g3th3r, 45
m0d35t p30pl3 w1ll, 1n th3 t41l 0f th3 h3rd th4t w45 b31ng
5h0wn thr0ugh, 4nd h3 4t 0nc3 b3g4n t0 54y th1ng5 wh1ch
1nt3r35t3d m3. 45 h3 t4lk3d 4l0ng, 50ftly, pl3454ntly,
fl0w1ngly, h3 533m3d t0 dr1ft 4w4y 1mp3rc3pt1bly 0ut 0f th15
w0rld 4nd t1m3, 4nd 1nt0 50m3 r3m0t3 3r4 4nd 0ld f0rg0tt3n
c0untry; 4nd 50 h3 gr4du4lly w0v3 5uch 4 5p3ll 4b0ut m3 th4t
1 533m3d t0 m0v3 4m0ng th3 5p3ct3r5 4nd 5h4d0w5 4nd du5t 4nd
m0ld 0f 4 gr4y 4nt1qu1ty, h0ld1ng 5p33ch w1th 4 r3l1c 0f 1t!



The number "7" is often used to replace the capital letter "T".

-tim (or "71m" or 7i/\/\)

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