Lan Barnes wrote:
I think you're being rough on yourself. What you're describing is
everyone's experience with the first venture away from the familiar. You
don't know how I used to curse vi when it was new to me (or maybe you do).
Oh, yes I do know how you cursed vi because I used to curse it just the
same! I thought for sure vi only worked that way because it was the best
the crummy outdated hardware it was designed on could do. But as we had
new hardware that could do so much better vi looked pretty sad. I used
far inferior editors for my first year or two of using Linux. But
eventually I had to start working on Unix boxes which only had vi and I
was given an ancient copy of "Learning vi" from O'Reilly and I
eventually came to appreciate the beauty of vi.
Now I wish I were using vi instead of the crappy editor that Thunderbird
comes with. I still don't understand why all of these applications
(thunderbird, firefox, etc.) or the widget toolkit they were built with
don't implement a GUI widget in which you can embed your favorite text
editor. So many coders use Firefox now and do so much writing in it
(blogs, online bug tracking, etc) but they all have to suffer with lame
text editing capabilities. Sure, there are plugins and extensions you
can get but they all seem to require an extra step of somehow activating
your preferred editor once the app has already fired up the lame editor
and they require you to have the plugin installed in the first place.
The M$ attitude that disgusts me is a subset of the whole authoritarian,
sheeple, I-need-something-powerful-to-fawn-before mind set. I don't see
that in just about anyone on this list.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I wonder if anyone has branded me
anti-authority or anything because I use Linux.
Of course, there _is_ a degree of self-selection here ;-)
Just a bit. :)
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