News archive search on Google?

Posted by on 19 July 2007 9:53

This is just too funny. I was doing a Google search to find out if it’s possible to use Vim to display one file in two panes (so I can view one part of the file while editing the other). This is what I found at the bottom of the search page:
Google News Archive results

None of those articles had anything to do with Vim, of course. Is something wrong with Google news archive search?

UPDATE: It turns out it’s a piece of cake to open the same file in two panes–it’s the same as for any other file. :sp filename

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  • smallgeek

    That is weird. No, I do not know how to show a file in vim in two panes, and I’ve never used Google news archive search. I just barely tried doing the same search, but I didn’t get the same results. Perhaps that’s just because news archives change, don’t they? Was it at the bottom of the first page? If it wasn’t, I’ve had that happen to me before, where you go through a bunch of pages and start getting random results, but I don’t know. :)
    Bye for now.

  • smallgeek

    That is weird. No, I do not know how to show a file in vim in two panes, and I’ve never used Google news archive search. I just barely tried doing the same search, but I didn’t get the same results. Perhaps that’s just because news archives change, don’t they? Was it at the bottom of the first page? If it wasn’t, I’ve had that happen to me before, where you go through a bunch of pages and start getting random results, but I don’t know. :)
    Bye for now.

  • http://instancevariable.wordpress.com/ Steven

    Vim can do a lot of cool things as far as editing multiple files go. It’s very easy to split the screen between two (or more) files, but I was wondering if it’s possible to have the same file open twice.

    Yes, they were at the bottom of the first page. But the news archives were from 1890, 1945, and 2005, so they’re not just about to change. ;)

    As of now, the search query is still returning the same results for me…

  • http://instancevariable.wordpress.com/ Steven

    Vim can do a lot of cool things as far as editing multiple files go. It’s very easy to split the screen between two (or more) files, but I was wondering if it’s possible to have the same file open twice.

    Yes, they were at the bottom of the first page. But the news archives were from 1890, 1945, and 2005, so they’re not just about to change. ;)

    As of now, the search query is still returning the same results for me…

  • smallgeek

    What if you try opening in each split-screen section, or does it not work that way? I don’t know much about command-line programs or anything like that, so I wouldn’t know.

  • smallgeek

    What if you try opening in each split-screen section, or does it not work that way? I don’t know much about command-line programs or anything like that, so I wouldn’t know.

  • smallgeek

    Oh, I see what you told me. I must not have read it correctly. That’s what it did for me, too. Cool. Helps if you read things right. ;)

  • smallgeek

    Oh, I see what you told me. I must not have read it correctly. That’s what it did for me, too. Cool. Helps if you read things right. ;)

  • http://instancevariable.wordpress.com/ Steven

    Sure enough, that works. Thanks!

  • http://instancevariable.wordpress.com/ Steven

    Sure enough, that works. Thanks!

  • smallgeek

    That’s good you figured it out. Now, just in case I need to open the same file in vim in two panes, I know how, if I learned to use vim.
    Bye. :)

  • smallgeek

    That’s good you figured it out. Now, just in case I need to open the same file in vim in two panes, I know how, if I learned to use vim.
    Bye. :)