Glen -
There is nothing in the universe I
hate more than the single character '\' !
Hate is a strong word.
Ok... hyperbole. But it does elicit physical reactions when I try to
type it! Even here in e-mail '\' <ouch!> .
But I feel it when I have to SCP files with
spaces in them ... which Microsoft and Apple people seem to be fond of.
Which we cope with using the hated '\' <arghhh!> to "escape"?
Direct quote from "man csh(1)"
`\' nullifies the special meaning of the following character, if it has any,
notably `\' and `^'.
I think the most irritating thing to me is the assumption that a GUI is
always more usable than the command line.
I love my command line (csh, bash, ...), even for text editing (vi:ex,
sed), but I *rarely* suggest that anyone else would/should/could find it
easier to learn than pretty much *any* WYSIWIG editor. GUIs, if
reasonably designed, almost always provide a *much* lower threshold to
entry than command lines. I'd hate to have to learn various
Random access is good. If I want to be scoped, I'll do it myself, thank
you very much. 8^)
Anarcho-Libertarian?
Which takes me back to the conversation we were having before. The
command line (and tools like vbox) allows me to "tunnel" between
subcultures quite nicely. I am very happy WINE exists. But it irks me
in a way I can't describe. Reflectively, however, I should like WINE
better than VBox... I guess I'm just confused.
The myriad choices for cross-platform coping is amazing IMO, whether it
is at the level of Cygwin (sorry Doug) or Virtual Machines or
multi-boot, or even just the myriad cross-platform dev
environments/apps/etc.
- Steve
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