On Thursday 18 December 2014 09:43:07 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> 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.
Mark, I tend to agree with the pundits that say emacs might be a good operating system, but it needs an editor capable to being used without a 2 year community college degree to learn how to use it. So in that sense I am clueless, and might as well stay that way since there are some who would want to recall my University of Hard Knocks degree if I did that as it would disqualify me. One of the hard and fast rules for that degree is that no education above public school is allowed. And I don't even have the usual 12 years worth of that. Got a G.E.D. though, just for the hell of it. I'd taken the test because the wife, who has a degree in music, felt bad that she couldn't introduce me as a such and such to her college buddies, and I didn't hear for a couple weeks so I collared the test admin about it, and his reply was "Why do you care, you were just doing it for the exercise, weren't you?" Got it in the mail a few days later. ;-) Sometimes you need to nudge the sleeping dog & let him know you are still there. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- 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 > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
