Yes - good catch! Somebody else had noted this, too (see comments below), and since this is an easy and common mistake to make, I had created a separate video explaining the issue: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FyPqII2rewA.html Unfortunately I don't have a way to edit or annotate the video. I may need to redo the whole video and upload a new version at some point.
Hi professor, I think it would be more useful, from the point of view of someone not that accustomed to Vim, to let the overlay that displays the characters pressed...maybe in a corner and not too big, just for reference in case someone wants to rewind and see, for example, how to copy and paste in Vim. I know, maybe I'm too spoiled but I just thought that it may be nice. Thanks again (also) for this course, it's really appreciated!
I really like Your videos. I think I watched all of them to refresh my knowledge and also to learn something new. Regarding this video I have one comment. You are using here sizeof providing as a parameter pointer, and as probably you are using 64 bits OS, the result you get is correct i.e. it returns 8 which is the same value as a parameter provided when the program is run. Providing value other than 8, as a parameter, will cause the program behaving wrong. I am not sure if this is intentional, but someone may think that using sizeof for a pointer returns number of dynamically allocated bytes of memory to which this pointer refers to, but this is wrong assumption, as it returns size of the pointer itself which is 4 bytes on 32bits system and 8 bytes on 64 bits system.
Thanks so much for your comment! You're of course correct, and I should have caught that. I'll see if I can fix that portion of the video in the future to clarify. For now, I hope your comment here helps others.
Rather than delete this video and try to replace it with an updated version, I put together a whole separate video on the use of "sizeof": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FyPqII2rewA.html
