Here is a funny rant: http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=argh_microsoft_notepad_crlf_argh&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
A couple of years ago, I realized that a whole generation has grown up without ever having to use a typewriter. A classmate was complaining that he always hit the Caps Lock key and wondered aloud why it was where it was. I explained to him the mechanics of manual typewriters, He already understood human inertia. So why was it that M$ screwed up line feeds? Was it because they did not have printcap and had to rely on human beings to keep early printers to keep from printing at the end of carriage? Why have they not fixed this when every modern print system works without it? GNU/Linux editors, right down to vim, have been able to deal with Notepad's broken output transparently for years. Does M$ enjoy their perversion? Are they still at war with commercial Unix? Why does Penguin Pete care? Is there something else that I missed when talking to my classmate? I almost never hit the caps lock by mistake. I could attribute this to my model M keyboard, but they tiny keys of my X30 Thinkpad are not a problem either. In fact, no keyboard has done this to me. Do Windows users find themselves reaching for the tab button often? Why is the caps lock button a problem to so many people? _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
