Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-27 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 08:51:13PM -0400, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: BTW my terminal emulator is moving along pretty well... I'm posting this message from it now. On Windows! (It is talking to my linux box over an ssh connection. It pipes to/from plink.exe to get its data.) Still a few bugs. In

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-27 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 17:41:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: This is really late, but I meant to ask, is your code up in github? I'd like to play around with it a bit. Not yet, I'm actually working on it right now though, trying to get X copy/paste working. What an obscure process with

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-27 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
BTW does the email address in your from header work? I just sent you a message.

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-27 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 01:03:39AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: BTW does the email address in your from header work? I just sent you a message. Yes I got it. Just haven't been able to do anything about it yet -- the ship's on fire again, proverbially speaking, at work. (No surprise, it's a

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-24 Thread Dicebot
On Monday, 23 September 2013 at 23:42:39 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: I have never figured out how to even get it into that state, but it might have been lack of motivation. I had to work under Windows a while last year. Yeah, one week I simply went into stubborn I want to make it work rampage and

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 21/09/2013 16:07, Manu wrote: I'm also not 'average-joe-numskull', at least I don't like to think I am, but that doesn't mean I want to know how a car is built, and then in turn how each individual part was built, and how to fix it, before I can have confidence it will get me to Sydney in one

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread Dicebot
On Monday, 23 September 2013 at 11:52:28 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 21/09/2013 16:07, Manu wrote: ... My feelings exactly. I learned about Linux and studied it when I was in high-school (Windows 98/Me era), and I was quite excited about it. Windows was more shite those days, and I knew

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:01:02PM +0200, Dicebot wrote: On Monday, 23 September 2013 at 11:52:28 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 21/09/2013 16:07, Manu wrote: ... My feelings exactly. I learned about Linux and studied it when I was in high-school (Windows 98/Me era), and I was quite excited

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 23/09/2013 15:50, H. S. Teoh wrote: I'm surprised at people talking about the amount of time spent configuring stuff on Linux, etc., because it's never happened to me! I mean, OK, in the early days you had to manually configure X11 and deal with all of the obscure problems, but that's no

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:50:43 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:01:02PM +0200, Dicebot wrote: Ironically, this is exactly the reason I have never succeeded in using the Windows for daily work. Amount of manual configuration and subverting the

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread Timon Gehr
On 09/23/2013 02:01 PM, Dicebot wrote: ... Ironically, this is exactly the reason I have never succeeded in using the Windows for daily work. Amount of manual configuration and subverting the defaults needed to make it actually usable for my programming flow is outstanding. ... I have never

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/23/13 5:30 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Monday, 23 September 2013 at 21:21:23 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: clip Yea, I find installing software is often (not always, but often) *easier* on Linux these days, thanks to apt and such. It used to be a nightmare of dependency issues in the

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread Craig Dillabaugh
On Monday, 23 September 2013 at 21:21:23 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: clip Yea, I find installing software is often (not always, but often) *easier* on Linux these days, thanks to apt and such. It used to be a nightmare of dependency issues in the days of dpkg/rpm[1]. But now, most of the

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-23 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
BTW my terminal emulator is moving along pretty well... I'm posting this message from it now. On Windows! (It is talking to my linux box over an ssh connection. It pipes to/from plink.exe to get its data.) Still a few bugs. In mutt, there's some lines too tall. I think the cursor isn't erasing

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 03:29:59 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 19:17:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: I dunno, I find that my good memories of those old games are quite tainted by nostalgia. True in some cases, but in others I find myself able

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:41:39 +0200 Brian Schott briancsch...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you've heard of OCRemix.org. Tons of remixes of classic video game music. Yes. There's a lot of junk (lots and lots of amateur techno remixes), but some real gems, too. DJ Pretzel is fantastic.

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:04:10 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2013 22:15, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: There is no argument here, actually. The problem is really historical -- names like 'du' or 'grep' or 'awk' meant something back in who knows when, but

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 04:21:24 -0400 Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:41:39 +0200 Brian Schott briancsch...@gmail.com wrote: I hope you've heard of OCRemix.org. Tons of remixes of classic video game music. Yes. There's a lot of junk

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 05:05:41 -0400 Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: You do realize that in the time you've spent taking a friendly OS discussion and single-handedly trying[1] to turn it into yet another ill-informed OS flamewar (congratulations, btw) you could have

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 21.09.2013 12:12, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 05:05:41 -0400 Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: You do realize that in the time you've spent taking a friendly OS discussion and single-handedly trying[1] to turn it into yet another ill-informed OS

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 21/09/13 11:05, Nick Sabalausky wrote: So? Does everything have to be targeted at new/casual users? Can't experienced users have stuff that's made for them? Who ever said command lines are still intended for everybody? Keep in mind, a programmer is NOT a casual or new user. But in any case,

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 21/09/13 12:12, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That came out overly-harsh and not how I intended. (Yea, no shit, Nick) Uhh, yea... Hah, and I just managed to write a huge long Profundus Maximus post in response to try and negotiate the peace ... :-P

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On 21/09/13 12:44, Paulo Pinto wrote: Basically, one of his messages is that nothing comes for free and learning requires effort. He makes the remark that only in the software industry people seem to have the learn in xxx days mentality and suff for dummies. One reason I like D is because it

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Manu
On 21 September 2013 19:05, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 11:04:10 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2013 22:15, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: There is no argument here, actually. The problem is really

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Manu
On 21 September 2013 21:27, Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net wrote: Specifically in this case: the user-friendliness of GNU/Linux distros has come a _huge_ way in the last 10 years, but there's no reason why they shouldn't be every bit as surface-friendly (maybe even more

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Peter Alexander
On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 15:07:17 UTC, Manu wrote: I have fuck-all tools available, it's near impossible to debug. Something that I know would take me 5 minutes in windows with that toolset has taken me a whole day so far... I honestly don't understand how linux users think it's okay.

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Manu
On 22 September 2013 01:38, Peter Alexander peter.alexander...@gmail.comwrote: On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 15:07:17 UTC, Manu wrote: I have fuck-all tools available, it's near impossible to debug. Something that I know would take me 5 minutes in windows with that toolset has taken me a

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Danni Coy
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...] Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror still runs circles around it.

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Minas
I use mono develop (on ubuntu).

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 01:07:08 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: [...lots of stuff snipped...] Believe it or not, my opinions on Linux, Windows and everyday usability are actually very, very similar to yours (including the vague impression that Linux GUIs are just facades - which they actually

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Manu
On 20 September 2013 14:10, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:32:09 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: Aye to that; I had a lot of problems with the gnd circuit on vintage hardware. They were very poorly isolated, and the gnd circuit

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Manu
On 20 September 2013 14:23, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:11:51 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...]

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Russel Winder
On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 21:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: […] I've always felt text rendering engines should be able to automatically fallback to another font for any characters that aren't in the selected font. (Ideally with a user-configurable chain of fallbacks, similar to CSS, but selected

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Russel Winder
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 12:11 +1000, Manu wrote: On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...] Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror still runs circles around it. For example, if

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Manu
On 20 September 2013 20:52, Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 12:11 +1000, Manu wrote: On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...] Dolphin is pretty nice, though

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:56:29PM +1000, Manu wrote: On 20 September 2013 14:23, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:11:51 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote:

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread PauloPinto
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 11:35:54 UTC, Manu wrote: On 20 September 2013 20:52, Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 12:11 +1000, Manu wrote: On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200,

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 12:16:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: There is no argument here, actually. The problem is really historical -- names like 'du' or 'grep' or 'awk' meant something back in who knows when, but they no longer mean anything to us today (well, those of us not old enough

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread JN
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 12:16:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Uh... you do realize that this is because Linux actually *lets* you fix things? If something like this happened on Windows, the only real solution is to nuke the system from orbit and start from ground zero again (i.e. reinstall).

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Wyatt
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 03:47:57 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I got a good way into the first (before I got distracted and stopped), and I find it very impressive considering it's on a system that competed with the NES. That's some classic 6502 vs. Z80 right there. Master System

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Wyatt
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 14:05:20 UTC, JN wrote: On Linux? hah, bad driver will lock you out of the system, installations regularly break. Closing the system? Oh let me just flash random gibberish that looks like memory corruption, then some log messages where it's FATAL ERROR every

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 14:07:36 UTC, Wyatt wrote: Final Fantasy oh god, great game. I *still* play FF1 on the NES somewhat regularly - the classes and flexibility in the order that you do the fiends gives it a surprising amount of replay value. (well I was playing Phantasy Star IV

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:05:19PM +0200, JN wrote: On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 12:16:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Uh... you do realize that this is because Linux actually *lets* you fix things? If something like this happened on Windows, the only real solution is to nuke the system from

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 14:34:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Stop right there. When the graphics driver crashes, no window can be displayed... It restarts the driver or loads a simple, generic driver to work temporarily if that's impossible. Windows is also unusable without a graphics

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:42:11PM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 14:34:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Stop right there. When the graphics driver crashes, no window can be displayed... It restarts the driver or loads a simple, generic driver to work temporarily if

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Paulo Pinto
Am 20.09.2013 16:05, schrieb JN: On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 12:16:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Uh... you do realize that this is because Linux actually *lets* you fix things? If something like this happened on Windows, the only real solution is to nuke the system from orbit and start from

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:24:21PM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: [...] one of the reasons I haven't played many new games this century is that they had already achieved gaming perfection in the 90's and I'd just prefer to replay them!) I dunno, I find that my good memories of those old games are

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 09:43:33PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:49:34 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 20:33:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Plus, they don't include quite enough Unicode glyphs for my needs

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:07:35 +0200 Wyatt wyatt@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 03:47:57 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I got a good way into the first (before I got distracted and stopped), and I find it very impressive considering it's on a system that competed

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:24:16 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: But then again, Opera didn't exactly provide a way to specify the order of font resolution either, so that didn't help. I agree that *sane* fallback fonts (with configurable fallback order!) would be much better than

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 16:24:21 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: one of the reasons I haven't played many new games this century is that they had already achieved gaming perfection in the 90's and I'd just prefer to replay them!) Two words: Rayman Legends

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Brian Schott
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 14:24:22 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Anywho, FF1, the graphics are beautiful and the music, needless to say, legendary. It really amazes me how much magic they did with a random noise channel and three beeps. I hope you've heard of OCRemix.org. Tons of remixes of

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Manu
On 20 September 2013 22:15, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:56:29PM +1000, Manu wrote: On 20 September 2013 14:23, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:11:51 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Manu
On 20 September 2013 23:47, PauloPinto pj...@progtools.org wrote: On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 11:35:54 UTC, Manu wrote: On 20 September 2013 20:52, Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 12:11 +1000, Manu wrote: On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 01:04:19 UTC, Manu wrote: I guess the 'inherent' weakness is the natural tendency to abbreviate everything because too much typing on the command line is not considered feasible. eh that's what autocomplete is for. But unix has a lot of silly abbreviations.

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 19:17:45 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: I dunno, I find that my good memories of those old games are quite tainted by nostalgia. True in some cases, but in others I find myself able to appreciate them even more now. But I avoid the taint by playing them again every

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 22:41:41 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: I hope you've heard of OCRemix.org. Tons of remixes of classic video game music. Aye. I also have all kinds of .nsf, etc., and mp3s of many game songs. And back in the day, vgmusic.com was the best site ever: midis galore!

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-20 Thread David Eagen
On Saturday, 21 September 2013 at 01:05:02 UTC, Manu wrote: I wish the rest of us could say the same. We're a pathetic patsy nation that just does whatever the yanks tell us to. But we're suckers for Aussie and English accents. We'll be so distracted by how you sound that we won't pay

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:31:48 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: I remember in the old DOS days, some games would load up custom graphics into the video card's text font buffer, so that they can draw sprites just by writing the corresponding characters into the video card's text

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:17:51 +0200 deadalnix deadal...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 18:29:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:15:35 +0200 PauloPinto pj...@progtools.org wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 08:42:16 UTC, Chris wrote:

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread PauloPinto
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 07:24:19 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:31:48 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: I remember in the old DOS days, some games would load up custom graphics into the video card's text font buffer, so that they can draw sprites

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:54:35 +0200 PauloPinto pj...@progtools.org wrote: On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 07:24:19 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's essentially the same strategy behind the graphics hardware in most 8/16-bit consoles. Basically the ones from around SMS/NES and

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Wyatt
On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 18:20:42 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Dolphin seems to have fixed it's Vista-like goofiness with the folder view's horizontal scrolling, and it really is pretty good for the most part. Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror still

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Manu
On 19 September 2013 17:24, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:31:48 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: I remember in the old DOS days, some games would load up custom graphics into the video card's text font buffer, so that they

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...] Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror still runs circles around it. For example, if you want a horizontal split or more than one split. Also, I don't think Dolphin has the file size view plugin, which is

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 20:33:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: And even though we aren't on 300 baud serial lines, sometimes I *do* wanna transfer large amounts of text into a terminal as fast as I can, for example: actually, I do want some way to transfer files easily. Using scp and so

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Wyatt
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 14:27:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...] Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror still runs circles around it. For example, if you want a horizontal split or more than one split. Also,

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 07:24:19 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's essentially the same strategy behind the graphics hardware in most 8/16-bit consoles. Something else I love from the good old days: palette swaps. (This is why color.d, previous image.d, has a separate class for

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Wyatt
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 14:49:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: actually, I do want some way to transfer files easily. Using scp and so on is kinda a pain, I would like to just cat file REMOTE_COMPUTER and be done with it. scp is ok if you have keys set up on both sides and they are

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 11:53:50 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Unfortunately I don't have much (any) time for hardware tinkering these days :( yeah... I never did real hardware - too rich for my blood - but I've written emulators, compilers, and assemblers for hardware I defined

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:01:18PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 14:27:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...] Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror still runs circles around it. For example, if

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 04:55:06PM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: [...] Something else I love from the good old days: palette swaps. Yeah! Those were cool! You could use exactly the same sprites, but change the palette, to produce what looks like different sprites. :) [...] When your life ran

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 04:49:34PM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 20:33:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: And even though we aren't on 300 baud serial lines, sometimes I *do* wanna transfer large amounts of text into a terminal as fast as I can, for example:

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 06:32:07AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:34:07 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: [...] If I have to install libraries not in the apt repository (or multiple conflicting versions of the same library), I tend to put it either under

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:04:44 +0200 Wyatt wyatt@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 18:20:42 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Dolphin seems to have fixed it's Vista-like goofiness with the folder view's horizontal scrolling, and it really is pretty good for the most

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:58:44 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 11:53:50 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Unfortunately I don't have much (any) time for hardware tinkering these days :( yeah... I never did real hardware - too rich for my

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:01:18 +0200 Wyatt wyatt@gmail.com wrote: ...is a bit closer, but there's a lot of room for improvement. Even the KDE part isn't really optimal (for example, I think reducing the recursion one level would be a better default), but it plays to the strengths of

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Matt Soucy
On 09/19/2013 05:52 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 06:32:07AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:34:07 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: [...] If I have to install libraries not in the apt repository (or multiple conflicting versions of the same

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:07:42 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 September 2013 17:24, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:31:48 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: I remember in the old DOS days, some games would

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:55:06 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 07:24:19 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's essentially the same strategy behind the graphics hardware in most 8/16-bit consoles. Something else I love from the good old

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
even more off topic lol On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 01:02:59 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Phantasy Star man, great series there. 1,2, and 3 were kinda slow moving I think I had to grind over to like level 8 before I dared venture more than ten steps away from the town in

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:49:34 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 20:33:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Plus, they don't include quite enough Unicode glyphs for my needs (actually, do they even support unicode at all?!). not really, I don't

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Manu
On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...] Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror still runs circles around it. For example, if you want a horizontal split or more than one

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:17:24 +0200 Wyatt wyatt@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 14:49:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: actually, I do want some way to transfer files easily. Using scp and so on is kinda a pain, I would like to just cat file REMOTE_COMPUTER and

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Manu
On 20 September 2013 11:02, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:07:42 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 September 2013 17:24, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:31:48 -0700 H.

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Manu
On 20 September 2013 11:40, Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: even more off topic lol On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 01:02:59 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Phantasy Star man, great series there. 1,2, and 3 were kinda slow moving I think I had to grind over to like

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:16:41 -0400 Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:58:44 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 11:53:50 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Unfortunately I don't have much (any)

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 03:40:09 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe destructiona...@gmail.com wrote: even more off topic lol I love offtopic. they're always the most interesting! (Maybe I'm just burning out on code... :/ ) On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 01:02:59 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Phantasy

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:32:09 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2013 11:02, Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:07:42 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: Atari 2600 was the only scanline renderer I know of from that

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:11:51 +1000 Manu turkey...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2013 00:25, H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote: [...] Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror still runs circles

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:08:49 -0400 Nick Sabalausky seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:04:44 +0200 Wyatt wyatt@gmail.com wrote: Also, I don't think Dolphin has the file size view plugin, which is nice for finding hidden monsters in your ~. Ouch, I

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread Chris
On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 19:48:18 UTC, Namespace wrote: Just out of interest. I use Sublime 2, Notepad++ and as IDE currently Mono-D. But I will try this evening VisualD. I have been using jEdit quite a lot, in fact I've done most of my D programming in jEdit. jEdit may be the odd on

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread PauloPinto
On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 08:42:16 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 19:48:18 UTC, Namespace wrote: Just out of interest. I use Sublime 2, Notepad++ and as IDE currently Mono-D. But I will try this evening VisualD. I have been using jEdit quite a lot, in fact I've

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread Chris
On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 09:15:36 UTC, PauloPinto wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 08:42:16 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 19:48:18 UTC, Namespace wrote: Just out of interest. I use Sublime 2, Notepad++ and as IDE currently Mono-D. But I will try this

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 18 September 2013 10:38, Chris wend...@tcd.ie wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 09:15:36 UTC, PauloPinto wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 08:42:16 UTC, Chris wrote: On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 19:48:18 UTC, Namespace wrote: Just out of interest. I use Sublime 2,

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 11:38 +0200, Chris wrote: […] We are all just prisoners here, of our own device - Hotel California but note: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave ibid. -- Russel. = Dr

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 07:29:24AM +0200, Michael wrote: Besides, we aren't on 300 baud serial lines! As backup line I have 56k dial-up modem ;) We still trolling each other about IDE ?) Or Win 8.1 UI is the best UI? Linux is my IDE. ;-) T -- VI = Visual Irritation

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 06:15:00 -0700 H. S. Teoh hst...@quickfur.ath.cx wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 07:29:24AM +0200, Michael wrote: Besides, we aren't on 300 baud serial lines! As backup line I have 56k dial-up modem ;) We still trolling each other about IDE ?) Or Win 8.1 UI is

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:15:35 +0200 PauloPinto pj...@progtools.org wrote: On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 08:42:16 UTC, Chris wrote: Although nice to have, D doesn't really need an IDE. IDEs can easily degenerate into luxurious prisons. Enjoying gold cage prisons since 1991. :) But

Re: [OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

2013-09-18 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:01:26AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 at 17:01:55 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Actually, that gives me an idea. What if, instead of defaulting to character data, the terminal input stream defaults to control structures? hehe those who don't

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