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Sunday, April 10, 2011

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What command leads to this output? Focus on the status message on the bottom left of the picture (click it to see a higher resolution version).

Answer: Cracked by Jaspreet and Anirudh Patil. The required command is Ni! (or :Ni!).

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

windows has "vi" ?

Charles Xavier said...

$ vim without specifying a filename .. when we open the Vim editor without specifying the filename, this window comes up..

Jaideep Jagannathan said...

@Anon - yes

@ Charles - I was more interested in what causes the output on the bottom left of the display.

Jaspreet said...

For vim to display ¨Do you want another shrubbery?, the command required is ¨:Ni!¨

Anirudh Patil said...

:ni
?? (not sure about case)

Sunday, April 10, 2011

One Shot


What command leads to this output? Focus on the status message on the bottom left of the picture (click it to see a higher resolution version).

Answer: Cracked by Jaspreet and Anirudh Patil. The required command is Ni! (or :Ni!).

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

windows has "vi" ?

Charles Xavier said...

$ vim without specifying a filename .. when we open the Vim editor without specifying the filename, this window comes up..

Jaideep Jagannathan said...

@Anon - yes

@ Charles - I was more interested in what causes the output on the bottom left of the display.

Jaspreet said...

For vim to display ¨Do you want another shrubbery?, the command required is ¨:Ni!¨

Anirudh Patil said...

:ni
?? (not sure about case)