Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: zzapper Subject: Re: wtf wtf Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 20:35:33 +0000 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <0hddqv02becobi1plmsuu26um1h6fmd3ij@4ax.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Shankar Unni > >> What I really want to know is why there are so few acronyms in WTF, >> does anyone have bigger datafiles?? > >Because as distributed, it was not intended to be a universal acronym >dictionary (which could run to millions of acronyms). > >WTF has generally been used to expand acronyms for phrases used in >typical mailing list/newsgroup settings (e.g. IMO, etc.) > >But hey, if someone has the energy to create *and maintain* a univeral >acronym library, go for it! > > What does the conversion to a DAT file achieve?? save a bit of space/speed search? zzapper -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/