[Chugalug] gedit vs geany

rdflowers base at chalice.us
Wed Dec 19 18:44:06 UTC 2012 

In the higher generations, there are inconsistencies. Some are:

For every person, the last character(s) can be '-', indicating we do  
not know their parents, or 'F-', meaning we know the father but not  
the mother, or (rarely) 'M-', meaning we know the mother but not the  
father. In earlier/higher generations, these are often incorrect.

For ancestors who are in more than one line, '((' groups list ( in  
each place where that person is ), all the numbers for that person. In  
earlier/higher generations, every conceivable inconsistency exists.

Frequently, because different portions come from different sources, a  
person could be the same person, and not recognized as such.

I have made reports for myself using rudimentary regexes. I can use it  
to sort by /surname/ or select and sort on the '((' groups.

I made a Python program to go back and forth between ordinary positive  
integers and mine, but I'd like to do that from Perl ( probably not a  
regex thing, though ).


----- Message from kitepilot at kitepilot.com ---------
     Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:07:51 -0500
     From: "kitepilot at kitepilot.com" <kitepilot at kitepilot.com>
  Subject: Re: [Chugalug] gedit vs geany
       To: rd at chatta.us


> Hmmmmm...
> I can't see how to fit this problem into regexp.
> What do we want to replace with  what?
> What do we want to search for?
> ET rdflowers writes:
>> Do I have an interesting set of regexp problems for you !!! I have  
>> a 6600 line handmade ancestor file into which inevitably   
>> inconsistencies have creeped, and I want to curry it. This BEGS for  
>>  regexp action, rather than what I could do if necessary: an ab  
>> initio  C or python prog for each thing I want to do with it that  
>> is too  time-consuming for hand work. The file has been copied to  
>> http://chatta.us/gnotes . The first field  is my version of an  
>> integer 0-v are base 32, wxyz are base 4, and @^  are base 2, and  
>> the thing grows on the right, and the leading 1 of it  in binary is  
>> ommitted. AFter generation 20 or so, you run into '((' things,  
>> which are to deal  with multiple descent from the same person.  
>> After about generation 23 or so, it becomes so hard to hand curry  
>> that  I haven't, and relevant regex insights and  
>> perl/python/whatever using  those would be SO welcome, if anyone  
>> happens to be in the mood to  share some.  ----- Message from  
>> kitepilot at kitepilot.com ---------
>>    Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:15:24 -0500
>>    From: "kitepilot at kitepilot.com" <kitepilot at kitepilot.com>
>> Reply-To: Chattanooga Unix Gnu Android Linux Users Group   
>> <chugalug at chugalug.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Chugalug] gedit vs geany
>>      To: Chattanooga Unix Gnu Android Linux Users Group   
>> <chugalug at chugalug.org>
>>> There is another thing for Vim (vi is ANOTHER can of worms!):
>>> regular expressions. It took me a while (LONG while) to decide to   
>>> face the regexp dragon, but now that I can sort-of put together  
>>> some  of them, my only regret is:
>>> WHY DIDN'T I TRY SOONER!? You can do unbelievable powerful magic   
>>> with regexps, and once you go regexp, you'll LOVE! Vim (and sed  
>>> and  grep). Regular expressions are not easy, but they are not  
>>> impossible.
>>> All it takes is a commitment to ask, when facing some boring   
>>> single-pattern multiple-lines change:
>>> how do I regxep this?
>>> Then you find one solution.
>>> And another.
>>> And another one!
>>> And (oh boy) yo begin smiling and thinking "this is *SOOOO KEWL!!!*"  :)
>>> Try it, you won't regret it. If you want to try regexps and you  
>>> are  (like me) lazy, feel free to send me an email asking how to  
>>> regexp  something and I'll give it a shot.  I'll send you back the  
>>> regexp  plus the explanation of how it works. No, I am neither  
>>> that helpful  nor that wizard.
>>> It has become now a (sometimes) entertaining challenge to regexp   
>>> stuff and the more I try the more I learn.  Feel free to send me  
>>> Vim  questions too.
>>> Back when I began learning vi in 1996 (I'm still learning), there   
>>> was a guy in the office that had an answer at his fingertips just   
>>> about every-time.  Made learning vi enjoyable as opposite as   
>>> frustrating.  And I can certainly learn (or challenge my  
>>> knowledge)  with your questions.
>>> ET PS: If you send me a specific question, make sure that you send  
>>>  it to my address, sometimes I overlook messages in the list.  
>>> David  Ingram writes:
>>>> I have recently been reading a good book about vim called  
>>>> Practical Vim. If
>>>> you want to make the investment in time it will pay dividends.  
>>>> Sublime also
>>>> has a vim mode for converts as well. For HTML and CSS I am using sublime
>>>> because out of the box it is setup for that kind of work. Vim can most
>>>> certainly replicate that, but there is effort required. +1 to all  
>>>>  who said you should at least learn the basics of vim (insert mode
>>>> and how to save files), it is a must for command line work where you have
>>>> no choice of editors. On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Adam   
>>>> Jimerson <vendion at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> You could also go the Jeff Dean,
>>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean_(computer_scientist)  
>>>>> route:      Jeff Dean escews both Emacs and VI. He types his  
>>>>> code into zcat,
>>>>> because it's faster that way. On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:20 AM,   
>>>>> Adam Jimerson <vendion at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> To help learn vim it ships with a teaching aid, vimtutor, that teaching
>>>>>> the basics (quiting, saving, movement via hjkl, moving by jumping, find,
>>>>>> find and replace) as well as some more advanced, and very  
>>>>>> useful, actions
>>>>>> (jump forward/backwards x number of words, jump to end of line, jump
>>>>>> to beginning of line, jump to the first character on the line)  
>>>>>> etc.  There
>>>>>> is also a browser based game to help learn how to use vim (
>>>>>> http://vim-adventures.com/), they have the first level free to play then
>>>>>> it is about $10 for the rest of the levels On Tue, Dec 18, 2012  
>>>>>>  at 7:31 PM, DaWorm <daworm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I still haven't figured out how to exit vim when some evil app makes it
>>>>>>> it's default configuration editor, much less use it to edit   
>>>>>>> something.  It
>>>>>>> may be the greatest editor of all time, but the learning curve isn't so
>>>>>>> much of a curve as an insurmountable cliff.  By the time I  
>>>>>>> could  figure out
>>>>>>> how to do something simple in it, I could download and try 20 other
>>>>>>> editors.  Of course I can't understand regex either, which may  
>>>>>>>  be related.
>>>>>>> My brain isn't quite that symbolic.  Looks like someone hit  
>>>>>>> random number
>>>>>>> keys with the shift stuck to me.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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