Much to my displeasure, Ubuntu seems to have been steadily making theversion of vim that they ship more and more superintelligent. I do notwant a superintelligent vi ; in fact, superintelligenceis a net negative in vim , because unlike with GNU Emacs it is almostalways wrong . So, unlike the first set of vim options ,these are negative options that I need, things that turn off settings.

So far, I have wound up with:

set formatoptions=l

Turns off automatic line wrapping. Since viis

DWiki has always had the ability to do the common blog thing of 'clickhere to see the rest of the entry'; when I put it in, I expected touse it for things like the detailed stats at the end of this entry . Because I am crazy that way, I built thefeature so that it could apply on the main page (pages, really), insyndication feed entries, or both, depending on what options I turned onin any particular entry.

In practice, it turned

I recently wound up reading a message about upcomingbehavior changes to the .com/.net/.edu nameservers ( via DawnKeenan ). The shortsummary of that message is that as of March 1st, those nameserverswill mostly stop returning information about out of zone gluerecords .

Up until I read the message, I had not realized that these nameserverswere still carrying (and in fact returning) out of zone glue records andit was just that modern DNS systems were not paying attention to them; I