On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:17 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote: >.... What a pain! Editing text files is particularly > irritating because my fingers operate in "vi" mode reflexively.
Get vim for Windows. A decent vi emulator, heck, I use it under Mandrake and on Sun instead of vi. > I also find myself cursing over Windows' apparent lack of consistency in > terms of where it decides to save things. I could go on... There is a decent shell toolkit for Windows, the name escapes me at the moment but it has ksh and most of the simple command line stuff. MKS Toolkit, perhaps? > My main impression of Windows is that it makes a lot of things > unnecessarily difficult! Some, certainly, other outright dangerous (registry editing, anyone?). If you ever have to write stuff at the system level it's downright schizophrenic with something like 3 sets of system calls for file I/O (as compared to the UNIX norm of 1 set). True pain on Windows is writing something that's to run like a cron job on UNIX. On UNIX you make it work then toss it into cron, on Windows you basically have to write a service around it, a completely different run environment, and it's impossible to test. Bah!
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