This will open all of the files that have the string ‘strip_tags’ in them in a single gvim window. (Can I call this one-liner: too lazy to even copy paste?)

perl5

perl6

This really should be a builtin. It is in perl6 and (I think) ruby.

*Update*: So I was on the perl6 mailing list and this happened:

19:42 <@TimToady> std: $a ==>>= $b
19:42 < p6eval> std 25080: OUTPUT«00:05 84m␤»
19:42 <@TimToady> oops
19:42 < frew> nice
19:43 < pugs_svn> r25081 | lwall++ | [STD] catch ==>>=

p6eval is a bot that you can check your perl6 code on. pugs_svn says when someone checks into the source repository. It was then that I realize that TimToady was Larry Wall.

He has actually spoken with me numerous times, which is pretty awesome. A lot of times I would ask a question and he would answer and add extra details. So that’s pretty great. I asked him a lot of questions about various things and he kindly answered. One of the things he told me was a shorter implementation of the code above in perl5:

How many of you have spoken to your language’s benevolent dictator?

Maybe I was doing it wrong, but this sure did make it nicer!