Russ Kepler wrote:
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 used to use the MKS toolkit version of vi on DOS as well as the Korn
shell and awk, grep, sed, et al. It was one of the reasons I never
learned DOS properly! vim is cool, though.
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?
Yes. Mortice Kern Associates from Canada, I think.
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!
Eek! (He makes the sign to ward off demons!)
cheers
Duncan
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