On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote:
> William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
In all of those cases, I simply press the <Tab> key to
indent, and the <Backspace> key to dedent. There is no
need to change habits. The editor takes care of it.
I assume that every modern editor can be configured that
way.
Since this is in chat, I guess I feel okay about making a fool
of myself. Not everybody wants to deal with every week's new
set of script kiddle gobbleygook. I hold a BSCS from the
"late cretaceous" of 1989. After that I started studying
molecular biology under the mistaken assumption that the
blythering human race would stop idiotically barrelling into
oblivion chopping off the icecaps at breakneck speed. Currently,
having idioticaly tried to get back into computer science, I am
enrolled in an MSCS at San Francisco State University. I keep
crashing my kernels and keep getting insulted and rejected by
the "online open source community" so I guess take what I have
to say with a grain of salt.
I learned the vi editor in 1985 and I am comfortable living on
command lines without this "modern editor" nonsense. I have to
say contemplating getting fired because some tyrant is going
to bite my head off for failing to look at page 1234 of the documentation
that clearly states that I MUST use a "modern editor" that will
automate tabbing of my code makes me want to blow my head off
right now and save the damn world the trouble.
Best regards
Oliver
PS: Personally I think that the tab character (ASCII 9)
should die. It is a vestige of the IT middle ages, it has
no right to exist anymore today, and it only causes problems.
The very existence of this thread proves this point.
I am now very confused. I thought I was arguing with this person,
and now it appears we agree. Next, I'll be arguing with myself.
YOU are confused? I read your email and see that you quoted me as saying
what someone else wrote. You quote ME as saying that stuff about
"<backspace> to dedent". In fact I did not write that. The other guy wrote
that. I don't think I've ever written the word "dedent" in my life, at least
until this paragraph. In fact, I'm not convinced that it IS a word.
Regarding your other rant, I am (slightly) older than the president of the
United States, with an old-style university background in Mathematics and
Computer Science, and I don't see why you're so bothered over a "modern"
editor with capabilities approaching that of editors that were available in
the 1970s, such as Wordstar.
What exactly is your problem with configuring your editor, to the point that
you have to blow your head off?
I've blown my kernel. I can't get anything to work anymore.
-Will
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