On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2014 07:03:14 John Thornton did opine > And Gene did reply: > > I've used Gedit since 2006 with no bugs or trashed files... > > > > JT > > I have saved a .hal file, tried to reload lcnc and gotten a screen full of > errors several times. > > On reloading the file, I have found whole paragraphs of stuff from near > the end of the file, duplicated in the middle of the loadrt or addf phases > of the file. Those are easy to fix as they are obvious. But when it > inserts a paragraph of page 8 of the file, into the line of code > configuring a function 8 or so stanza's of code after the addf's are done, > it gets exasperating to fix. While carving up the ini and hal files for > my lathe, I expect I wasted 2 full days repairing that sort of damage. I > got to the point before I went searching for an editor, of printing every > save so I had hard copy one generation back as a recovery tool. > > Writing a couple hundred lines of gcode was the same story. I spent 50% of > my time restoring what I had already written. > > So I figured that the one thing linux had going for it was at least 20 > ways to skin the editor function. The first suggestion offered by synaptic > when I entered "text editor" was geany, so I installed it. Some minor > diffs in the gui but otherwise acts like gedit, but has not trashed a file > for me yet. > > For me, it Just Works(TM) for everything but the printing from its menu, > but then gedit is similarly broken. So if I need a printout on dead > trees, its back to the old standard: > > lp -dBROTHEHL2140 -olandscape filename > > I have a vi clone I use on the CoCo's so I am also fairly familiar with > vi/vim, but there are several things it does well but much slower, like > scrolling the screen to where you want to work, so while I could use vim, > I found gedit/geany buckets faster at, and when I am fighting with > something the editor ought to have a scroll bar to do, its distracting and > destroys my instant train of thought. That could be construed to be a > sign of my age, but if so, its been a problem for 35 years or more. > > Anyway, that is why I've come to hate gedit. > Well, there's always Xemacs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
