Warren Taylor wrote:
It seems I've struck a nerve with my frustration using the native linux editors.
I guess I'll rephrase and just say that the best alternative I have found is to
ftp to the linux workstation and gedit the file, then ftp it back. It gives me
the ability to manipulate large files with ease. Others have suggested NFS and
this might be an interesting alternative to ftp'ing back and forth. My users
won't be compiling anything so an IDE seems like overkill. A seamless way for
them to edit files on the server database from their linux workstations would
be a good solution.
thanks and sorry
More to the point, people are trying to comprehend how you find the
existing Linux tools inadequate. They might be, but you've not made the
point yet.
From the information to hand so far, your best approach is to use NFS;
it's completely transparent, and if you set it up with automount, it's
always almost mounted:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls /net/ns
total 8
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root 0 Mar 9 14:08 home
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root 0 Mar 9 14:08 misc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 4096 Feb 15 19:10 tftpboot
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root 0 Mar 9 14:08 var
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
The action of referring to it gets it mounted.
btw, not every implementation if vi is equal, vile is well-named, nvi is
ok, vigor is an enhanced nvi, but my favourite is vim, because there's a
GUI version of it (and a build for Windows).
----- Original Message ----
From: Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2007 8:13:20 PM
Subject: Re: What is vnc
On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Warren Taylor wrote:
due to the uniqueness of our work, an IDE is probably not worth the
expenditure and if I hear one more reference to vi I"m going to
croak. These editors are far too weak to be considered for any type
of serious work. even emacs is too weak to accomplish the task. we
have a small number of users and currently most have linux
workstations available to them.
Please enlighten me as to what task is so enormous that emacs can't
do it, but for which an IDE is unsuitable. In fact, just enlighten
me as to what's a "stronger" editor than emacs.
I have difficulty envisioning this. I have met better development
environments than Emacs + Speedbar + whatever-mode ( + some
combination of useful elisp), but not many of them, and only in
purpose-built environments.
Adam
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Cheers
John
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