old_contents: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  
  import HTMLParser
  import json
  import vim
  import webbrowser
  
  REDDIT_URL = 'http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/hot.json'
  
  def bufwrite(string):
      b = vim.current.buffer
  
      # Never write more than two blank lines in a row
      if not string.strip() and not b[-1].strip() and not b[-2].strip():
          return
  
      # Vim must be given UTF-8 rather than unicode
      if isinstance(string, unicode):
          string = string.encode('utf-8', errors='replace')
  
      # Code block markers for syntax highlighting
      if string and string[-1] == unichr(160).encode('utf-8'):
          b[-1] = string
          return
  
      if not b[0]:
          b[0] = string
          return
  
      if not b[0]:
          b[0] = string
      else:
          b.append(string)
  
  def vim_reddit():
      vim.command('edit .reddit')
      vim.command('setlocal noswapfile')
      vim.command('setlocal buftype=nofile')
  
      bwrite('/r/programming (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming)')
      bwrite('')
  
      items = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(REDDIT_URL).read())
      for index, item in enumerate(items.data.children):
          line_1 = index + '. ' + item['title'] + '(' + item['domain'] + ')'
          line_2 = item['score'] + ' points by ' + \
                   item['author'] + ' | ' + item['num_comments'] + ' comments'
          bwrite(line_1)
          bwrite(line_2)
  
new_contents: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  
  import HTMLParser
  import json
  import vim
  import webbrowser
  
  REDDIT_URL = 'http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/hot.json'
  
  def bufwrite(string):
      b = vim.current.buffer
  
      # Never write more than two blank lines in a row
      if not string.strip() and not b[-1].strip() and not b[-2].strip():
          return
  
      # Vim must be given UTF-8 rather than unicode
      if isinstance(string, unicode):
          string = string.encode('utf-8', errors='replace')
  
      # Code block markers for syntax highlighting
      if string and string[-1] == unichr(160).encode('utf-8'):
          b[-1] = string
          return
  
      if not b[0]:
          b[0] = string
          return
  
      if not b[0]:
          b[0] = string
      else:
          b.append(string)
  
  def vim_reddit():
      vim.command('edit .reddit')
      vim.command('setlocal noswapfile')
      vim.command('setlocal buftype=nofile')
  
      bwrite('/r/programming (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming)')
      bwrite('')
  
      items = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(REDDIT_URL).read())
      for index, item in enumerate(items.data.children):
          line_1 = index + '. ' + item['title'] + '(' + item['domain'] + ')'
          line_2 = item['score'] + ' points by ' + \
                   item['author'] + ' | ' + item['num_comments'] + ' comments'
          bwrite(line_1)
          bwrite(line_2)
  
  def vim_reddit_link():
      return
  
subject: create fill-in for vim_reddit_link function