Vim easter egg in command line completion

[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi,

Try pressing Tab after entering the following (you need a space after Ni):

   :hi Ni 

I haven't noticed this easter egg mentioned before.

- Yegappan

[Tony Mechelynck]

Wow! Neither had I. That M* P* display is undoubtedly Bram's idea.

Best regads,
Tony.

[Dominique Pellé]

Yes, I noticed it a long time ago by looking at
code uncovered with tests. That code looked
a tad mysterious until I saw what it did. I gave
up adding a test for it. as it would spoil the
fun :-) and it would also be slow.

This page has other vim easter eggs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/28pj01/vim_easter_eggs/
:hi Ni <Tab> was missing there. So is :smile

Dominique

[Yegappan Lakshmanan]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 1:24 PM Dominique Pellé <dominiq...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Try pressing Tab after entering the following (you need a space after Ni):
>
>    :hi Ni
>
> I haven't noticed this easter egg mentioned before.
>
> - Yegappan

Yes, I noticed it a long time ago by looking at
code uncovered with tests. That code looked
a tad mysterious until I saw what it did.  I gave
up adding a test for it. as it would spoil the
fun :-) and it would also be slow.

I also noticed this when developing tests. I have now added

a test for this using test_override with ui_delay to avoid

the delay.

Regards,

Yegappan

[BPJ]

The most hilarious if you know Swedish is that "Ni" is the Swedish word for "You" ("Vous") and when I was young that form of address (to a single person) was supposedly only used by stuffy old people who considered themselves better than others, so "knights who say Ni" evokes a very specific image for my generation of Swedes.

My favorite is clearly :h bar — how many meta levels are there? :-)

[Andy Wokula]

Nice find for the 20 year an-Ni!-versary of Vim 5.7
(version for PC compiled Jun 24 2000).

It works with Vim 5.7 O.o

--
Andy