On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:20:22PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> on 8-11-2008 9:06 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
>
>>> I will look at Eclipse, but one of my goals is to be able to fix
>problems
>
Edlin
aarrgh my eyes...
I don't know who to credit the quote to, but I think it's best described by:
"Windows. From the company that brought you edlin."
--
Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd
021-295-1923www.knossos.net.nz
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:27:28PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:45 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> > An intuitive interface shortens the learning curve.
> > An efficient interface becomes a concern after that. vi came
> > to serve in an environment where most were
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:27:28 -0400
"William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Or the stupid
> MS editor that used to come on DOS?
Edlin was good for automated remote script generation over a serial connection.
(We used to do kiosks with today's weather report and the special at the
restaur
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:45 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
>
> > MHR wrote:
> >>
> >> Vi is not the world's best editor
> >
> > Heh, understatement of the century.
> > It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came
Well, when people start to fail to understand your metaphors (or switch
to the uber-literal-minded mode and attack the imperfections in the
comparisons you make, instead of debating the original topic), you know
it's pointless to continue the discussion. ;-)
But the way this "discussion" evolv
Florin Andrei wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0700
Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with
the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her
fired five minutes later. With no severan
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:25:50 -0700
Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0700
> > Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with
> >> the user interface, only to have
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>>
>> Vi is not the world's best editor
>
> Heh, understatement of the century.
> It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with
> the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/he
Frank Cox wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0700
Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with
the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her
fired five minutes later. With no severance package.
Viewed i
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0700
Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with
> the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her
> fired five minutes later. With no severance package.
Viewed in the context
MHR wrote:
Vi is not the world's best editor
Heh, understatement of the century.
It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with
the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her
fired five minutes later. With no severance package.
It's one of the wo
--On Monday, August 11, 2008 7:20 PM -0500 Lanny Marcus
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Then you shouldn't go wrong, because I have yet to be on a linux box or a
bsd box that didn't have some form or emulation of vi installed.
vi is everywhere! But, apparently, I need to learn how to use Emacs or
Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > on 8-11-2008 9:06 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
>
> >> I will look at Eclipse, but one of my goals is to be able to fix
> >> problems on a remote box and that will probably require vi.
> >
>
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> vi is everywhere! But, apparently, I need to learn how to use Emacs or
> another IDE
> too, so there's another learning curve.
>
I've been using vi (and vim and gvim) for more than twenty years and
I've never "needed" an
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 8-11-2008 9:06 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
>> I will look at Eclipse, but one of my goals is to be able to fix problems
>> on
>> a remote box and that will probably require vi.
>
> Then you shouldn't go wrong, be
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