What Editor - a survey? (was Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs)

2009-10-22 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Jacqui Caren-home jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com wrote: Which brings up what perl editors do people use and why? Gabor Szabo is actually conducting a poll on this at the moment, which he'd appreciate you all filling in. Go on, it'll take five seconds...

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/21 Jacqui Caren-home jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com: Smylers wrote: You shouldn't; you should use an editor which has completion on words which are used in your project. I use a few with completions - with no one being best for the various languages I use. Which brings up what perl

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread James Laver
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.com wrote: I personally use vim, though if and when Padre gets good I will switch to that. I'm currently trying to add extract subroutine and rename variable to it, but it's easier said than done... I'm pretty sure I saw a

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/22 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.com wrote: I personally use vim, though if and when Padre gets good I will switch to that. I'm currently trying to add extract subroutine and rename variable to it, but it's

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread john_oshea
Philip Potter wrote: 2009/10/22 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: I'm pretty sure I saw a video demonstrating a working rename-variable plugin. I believe there were comments along the lines of 's/$old_name/$new_name/' and then the usual arguments over 'works most of the time' v.s. 'won't work

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21:05PM -0400, jesse wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:50:19PM +0100, Smylers wrote: A friend with RSI has a keyboard he can use fine, but needs to avoid mousing. Unfortunately[*1] whoever wrote the bespoke software used by his branch of the civil service didn't

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/22 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21:05PM -0400, jesse wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:50:19PM +0100, Smylers wrote: A friend with RSI has a keyboard he can use fine, but needs to avoid mousing.  Unfortunately[*1] whoever wrote the bespoke software

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Smylers
jesse writes: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:50:19PM +0100, Smylers wrote: A friend with RSI has a keyboard he can use fine, but needs to avoid mousing. Unfortunately[*1] whoever wrote the bespoke software used by his branch of the civil service didn't bother with keyboard access for many

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:53:56AM +0100, Philip Potter wrote: 2009/10/22 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk: Since when did something being illegal stop it from happening, especially in government? Since people were unwilling to stand up for what they lawfully deserve -- either through

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Wed 21.Oct'09 at 17:44:58 +0100, James Laver wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:21 PM, jesse je...@fsck.com wrote: In the US, that's ~illegal[1]. The UK doesn't have a similar law? [1] http://www.section508.gov/ We have the disability discrimination act which makes it similarly

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
If it's the bad debt and it's under 5k, go small claims. When judgement is made in your favour and they fail to follow through enforce in the usual way. It seems like you should just take the papers to the fraud squad and let them get on with it. And HMRC. On 22 Oct 2009, at 14:46, Ash Berlin

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-22 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 22/10/09 14:46, Ash Berlin wrote: ...decent laywer? Alex Chapman at Sheridans can doubtless put you in touch with one of his fine colleagues if he doesn't handle this type of work himself. Excellent chap and very knowledgeable. achap...@sheridans.co.uk I doubt they do no-win-no-fee but

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-22 Thread Richard Foley
On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:46:28 Ash Berlin wrote: For added fun, we're farily sure that the directors (who have quite large personal fortunes) have invalidated their limited liabilities, and could potentially face many years jail time. You'll be lucky if you can catch them with their

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-22 Thread Steff Davies
Ash Berlin wrote: ...decent laywer? A lawyerist (and excellent cartoonist) of my acquaintance tells me that no-win-no-fee is unlikely to be attractive to most lawyers in this sort of case and that such cases can take a long (years) time to sort out. She does recommend someone though:

Re: Anyone know of a ...

2009-10-22 Thread Joel Bernstein
On 22 Oct 2009, at 14:46, Ash Berlin wrote: snip request for lawyer recommendation There are many lawyers who specialise in litigation, and plenty of those work on a no-win-no-fee basis. However, it's important to understand how no-win-no-fee works in practice. Essentially the fee is