On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:55:45PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message [...] > > Well I guess there's such a thing as different strokes for different > > folks, de gustibus non disputandum, etc. etc. > > > > No kidding! I was reading through that interview you linked to about > your setup, and I was thinking "How does he get anything done?" ;) > (But I might give GNU screen and zsh a try sometime, though.)
I use GNU screen regularly. It's pretty awesome for what it does, though it does come with its own warts (like broken terminal type translation for certain terminal types, causing mostly-working but sometimes broken terminals). It's pretty cool to be able to just disconnect a screen in the middle of, say, writing some cool D code, then log on again later from a different location, fire up screen, and just continue typing where you left off without a flinch. [...] > I'm sure Google Docs is fast(-ish) on that 64-bit multi-core 8GB RAM, > SSD storage machine, but when it takes that kind of hardware just to > run a what's really just a basic word processor, you know something > has gone horribly, horibly wrong. [...] One word: MS Word. For me, vim over a text-only ssh terminal beats _any_ kind of GUI word processor, any day. What's that you say? No formatting? Pfeh... 90% of text documents do not _need_ formatting. Wasting time with fonts, colors, etc., only detract from the actual content of the document. (Unless you're a marketroid whose content _is_ just the formatting.) And when formatting _is_ necessary, LaTeX rulez them all anyway, and I can do LaTeX with a pure, unadulterated plain-text editor. Over a 2400 baud modem link without a flinch. :-P T -- One Word to write them all, One Access to find them, One Excel to count them all, And thus to Windows bind them. -- Mike Champion
