On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:56AM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> writes: > > The big problem with emacs is that it looks like that most unhelpful of > > "help" systems, GNU info. > Meh, I personally prefer it to a wad of randomly-structured HTML,
Bet you'd rather have a nice manpage instead. Especially when once you've tracked down and installed the info reader and figured out how to use it, the info page ends up looking exactly like a man page and doesn't use any of info's extra (but hateful) features. > > I like ed. It would be foolish to try to use him as an > > interactive text editor, but piping a string of commands to his > > STDIN is a thing of beauty, and sometimes works. > I actually once interned for a really smart guy who wrote all his > scientific papers (LaTeX) with an ed clone, tedi, because it was > the closest thing to the old VMS line editor that he could find. He's a sick sick man. I sort of approve, in the same way as I'd approve of someone who was so self-confident that he admitted to all and sundry that he found womens' underwear more comfortable. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist There's a hole in the world like a great black pit And the vermin of the world inhabit it And its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit And it goes by the name of London.
