Steve writes: "Really, text editing is just like riding a bike... you don't forget what that first "real bike" feels like, and it IS fun to wipe the dust off of it and cruise down the boardwalk ogling the young and the reckless with their toned tans, but from one old fart to the rest of you, don't forget the ape-hangers, the gel seat, and the three speed hub. "
I still have the motors skills for ed and sometimes still use it when an internet connection is slow. The motor skills amount to using regular expression ranges instead of scrolling around, and making changes with what amount to using tiny context dependent programs to make the edits. It does require one be very facile with tagged regular expressions. It's not a crazy way to program, actually. If one can't formulate the code change they want to make with code, it may well not even make sense. And programs are just grammar constrained graphs, after all. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
