On Friday 19 September 2014 23:14:12 Erik Christiansen did opine And Gene did reply: > On 19.09.14 17:22, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Has anyone else had a similar problem with gedit? Its a PIMA when it > > happens, to have to do all that edit, restart lcnc to get the next > > error's line number so you can re-edit and fix it till it will > > actually run again. It can be 20+ minutes to fix it all again. And > > it totally screws with this old farts train of thought. > > > > Suggestions welcomed of course. > > Can't help diagnose gedit, can only say that in nigh on a quarter > century's use of vi/vim, I've never lost (or doubled up on) a byte > through unreliability. There is though, some extra use of undo while > getting used to it, as with most unfamiliar software tools. > > I will admit to casting an eye on the status line to check the size of, > in particular, my "on-line brain" file before saving it, just to check > that I haven't fumble-fingered a slab of it away myself. The trouble > with backups is that they back up your mistakes, if you never check. > > Erik
Ain't that the truth, Erik. I've found mistakes and had to backtrack amanda by a week or more to get a clean file on 3 or 4 occasions. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
