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:
snip
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
--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
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
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 of
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 in
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/her
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 the satisfaction
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
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
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 up with
the
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
restaurant
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
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 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:
snip
I will look at Eclipse, but one of my goals is to be able to fix
problems
on
on 8-11-2008 9:06 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Vaclav Mocek little.owl-PkL3B3/[EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
I downloaded the .pdf version of Thinking in C++ and I've
begun to read that and I did
yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' I'm
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:
snip
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, because
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 IDE.
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