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 ________________________________________
/ If you learn one useless thing every   \
| day, in a single year you'll learn 365 |
| useless things.                        |
\                   -- fortune | cowsay  /
 ----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

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 ________________________________________
/ If you learn one useless thing every   \
| day, in a single year you'll learn 365 |
| useless things.                        |
\                   -- fortune | cowsay  /
 ----------------------------------------
                    ^__^   /        
            _______/(oo)  /         
        /\/(       /(__)            
           | w----||                
           ||     ||

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7,11c7,11
<         \   ^__^
<          \  (oo)\_______
<             (__)\       )\/\
<                 ||----w |
<                 ||     ||
---
>                     ^__^   /        
>             _______/(oo)  /         
>         /\/(       /(__)            
>            | w----||                
>            ||     ||

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#25 Renat Aksitov / @Korvin79 - Score: 70 - 03/04/12 @ 04:06

:se ri et<NL>7GcG<C-R>"<Esc>geld<fd-58>3I <Esc>-.2-4.-12.f\*l<C-V>jr(%r(E<C-V>kr)Nr/N.n.n.W.N.hr\ZZ

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#26 Francisco Dibar / @frandibar - Score: 77 - 01/10/11 @ 18:27

:7,$!rev<CR>/\/<CR>r\/\\<CR>r/n.nnn.n.n.n./)<CR>r(n.n./(<CR>r)3n.7G<C-V>L11I <Esc>9i <Esc>ji <Esc>j3xL$T|DZZ

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#27 aimee / @sermoa - Score: 80 - 01/03/11 @ 10:07

:7,11!rev<CR>20I <Esc>j12I <Esc>j8I <Esc>j11I <Esc>j.:7,9s/\\/\//g<CR>lr\:7,9s/(/)<CR>:8,9s/)/(<CR>f)r(jjDZZ

@sermoa: Okay, so it's not as simple as reversing lines 7-11 as i first thought! I have to insert some spaces, then i have to switch backstrokes to forwardstrokes, and change open brackets to close brackets and vice versa. Finally i have to remove a bit of whitespace so that it matches the expected result.

@sermoa: I much prefer @derp's :tr to transpose characters. Much more efficient than my :s commands.

@henrik: :7,$ is a little shorter - $ means the last line. You could avoid having to escape the / by using % as separators instead, e.g. s%\\%/%g

@sermoa: Oh, so THAT'S why people use different characters. I had wondered! thanks! :)

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#28 drio / @drio - Score: 85 - 01/16/11 @ 08:53

:7,$!rev<CR>20I <Esc>j12I <Esc>j8I <Esc>jj11<Esc>k11I <Esc>j.<Esc>:7,9s/\\/\//g<CR>lr\:7,9s/(/)<CR>:8,9s/)/(<CR>f)r(jjDZZ

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#29 Mohammad-Javad Izadi / @mjizadi - Score: 87 - 01/05/11 @ 06:55

G11A <Esc>k.k8A <Esc>k12A <Esc>k20A <Esc>VG!rev<CR>G9 d$:%s/)/x/g<CR>:%s/(/)/g<CR>:%s/x/(/g<CR>R/\/<Esc>f\r/k.f\r/kl.ZZ

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#30 Pete Johns / @johnsyweb - Score: 99 - 01/10/11 @ 11:47

7Gx9I <Esc>3A <Esc>a/<Esc>+R  /<Esc>df\A<C-R>"<BS>  /<Esc>I <Esc>+d%$pf\F\xh3XF\s/\/( <Esc>04x+5XlR w<Esc>fwR-|<Esc>+5X:se ve=all<CR>-$16l<C-V>3kr ZZ

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#31 無ん垢の叫び / @john_ababa - Score: 181 - 02/24/12 @ 02:18

6jdG:a!<CR>                    ^__^   /        <CR>            _______/(oo)  /         <CR>        /\/(       /(__)            <CR>           | w----||                <CR>           ||     ||<CR><Esc><Esc>ZZ

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