Re: Powerfulness
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: Juergen Salk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not belong to them. Does that mean these are less powerful than the powerful ones? You're right in general, but there actually seems to be a fairly distinct divide in editors, between simple editors for newbs and not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? No, there's actually three classes: Simple editors for newbies, not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors, and religions. HTH, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
Re: Powerfulness
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? No, there's actually three classes: Simple editors for newbies, not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors, and religions. ae is the religion variety.
Re: Powerfulness
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: Juergen Salk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not belong to them. Does that mean these are less powerful than the powerful ones? You're right in general, but there actually seems to be a fairly distinct divide in editors, between simple editors for newbs and not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? -- featured product: the KDE desktop - http://kde.org pgpEe77m6h0eE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Powerfulness
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're right in general, but there actually seems to be a fairly distinct divide in editors, between simple editors for newbs and not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? Naw, it just needs powerful added to its package description... :-/ -miles -- Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. -- Jerry Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Powerfulness
Juergen Salk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not belong to them. Does that mean these are less powerful than the powerful ones? You're right in general, but there actually seems to be a fairly distinct divide in editors, between simple editors for newbs and not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors -miles -- Run away! Run away! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 03:28:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like powerful in package descriptions in general. Sounds like something that should be added to lintian. Too hard, too many combinations, too much investigation needed to pin it down. For example, there's over 150 packages using the word 'best' - I can't imagine that could possibly be right, but you never know without reading the thing... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -- | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like powerful in package descriptions in general. Sounds like something that should be added to lintian. I suggest filing a wishlist bug with a patch. I recently made a lintian patch to check for best-practice homepages in the description field, which was easy, just modify checks/description and checks/description.desc. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
