On Thursday 18 December 2014 09:47:22 Mark Wendt did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 18 December 2014 07:07:22 Mark Wendt did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 7:03 AM, John Thornton <bjt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've used Gedit since 2006 with no bugs or trashed files... > > > > > > > > JT > > > > > > Been using it for a long time also, and have never had it trash > > > files. > > > > > > But I'm also a vi kinda guy, been using it since the late 80's. > > > ;-) > > > > > > Mark > > > > So have I Mark. On my coco's running os9, its the only editor I can > > run with a 56k buffer on os9 level 2. On a machine whose cpu can > > only see 64kb at a time. There it is my goto editor. > > I've used vi for so long, it's pretty much automatic. vi is a text > editor, not a word processor, which is what the Windoze users have so > gotten used to. Once you've gotten familiar with the way vi works, > it's a pretty powerful utility. > > And you can't use much of anything else when your windows manager is > broke and you have to edit your xorg.conf, or you have to fix your > machine in single user mode. No windows manager, no gedit or geany. > ;-) > > Mark
There is that, but vi often isn't there if booted to the live cd, and you are often stuck with pico or nano that you've never seen before in your whole life... Thats a pretty strong suckage. 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
