[OT] Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
Quoth Brian Nelson, Did I miss any? My personal favourite is Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, Dead
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:39:30PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Well, damn, let's just throw them all out there: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping [...] Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos Did I miss any? Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conceivable selections. Rob -- Old programmers never die, they just become managers.
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
Rob Mahurin wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:39:30PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: Well, damn, let's just throw them all out there: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping [...] Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos Did I miss any? Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conceivable selections. Rob But then even masochists avoid comparable suffering... -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller TAG name=windoze action=bash/tag
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
also sprach will trillich (on Mon, 07 May 2001 12:03:32AM -0500): official schmofficial. hehe. ap a paragraph, select [count] paragraphs (see ip inner paragraph, select [count] paragraphs (see ah. learn new things day in, day out. my relevant settings: set nowrap set nolinebreak set textwidth=0 set wrapmargin=10 set wrapscan aha. BUT the key is, how to get VIM to know when you're editing a MUTT file... and set configs accordingly? or just do everything at wm=10. there's no particular reason why you would ever want different... my TeX/C++/PHP whatever docs are now all 70 wide. makes it a whole lot easier to read... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- dimmi in 10 secondi i nomi dei 7 re di roma, in ordine decrescente di data di morte del figlio secondogenito, in rot13... o faccio fuori la directory /dev !!!
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Sun, 06 May 2001 10:10:56PM -0700): set nowrap set nolinebreak set textwidth=0 set wrapmargin=10 set textwidth=72 don't ask me why, i tried both and for whatever reason ended up prefering the way i chose. but hey, don't know why i had set wrapscan in there... (waiting for emacs users to join in: you can do all of this and next month's laundry with a key-combo that will only cause you to put three knots in your fingers while reaching through your legs to touch the back of your head - that's all doing a headstand...) martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- because light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be intelligent, until you hear them speak.
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:20:14AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: (waiting for emacs users to join in: you can do all of this and next month's laundry with a key-combo that will only cause you to put three knots in your fingers while reaching through your legs to touch the back of your head - that's all doing a headstand...) hey, i just found out (foldoc/jargon dict) that emacs evolved from (removing hat from head) Teco, so we may be soon taking exceptions to emacs-dissing... :) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan? Because the Debian package system is a lot more sophisticated than the one Red Hat uses; lots more inter-dependency information is built in to a *.deb package. If you bypass that with an *.rpm file, you're taking chances with your system. Try to apt-get install debian-only packages if possible. (Also check out the alien package if you must.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
also sprach will trillich (on Mon, 07 May 2001 12:01:30PM -0500): hey, i just found out (foldoc/jargon dict) that emacs evolved from (removing hat from head) Teco, so we may be soon taking exceptions to emacs-dissing... :) well then... let me through this last one out: (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping hehe martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- micro$oft dns service terminates abnormally when it receives a response to a dns query that was never made. fix information: run your dns service on a different platform. -- bugtraq
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
MaD dUCK wrote: well then... let me through this last one out: (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Yeah. That was a problem when we had 16MB of RAM on typical machines. With 512MB of RAM, I don't care so much anymore!
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:36:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: well then... let me through this last one out: (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Yeah. That was a problem when we had 16MB of RAM on typical machines. With 512MB of RAM, I don't care so much anymore! Ah, but it's truly like a goldfish, in that it grows to fit its environment. :) Emacs 21 looks very nice, and very bloated. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925 pgpqGzOrVcVy1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:57:29PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: well then... let me through this last one out: (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Sorry, can't resist: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- People just generally like to disagree. Bill Joy
Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:28PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:57:29PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: well then... let me through this last one out: (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Sorry, can't resist: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Well, damn, let's just throw them all out there: Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping Even a Master of Arts Comes Simpler Emacs Manuals Are Cryptic and Surreal Eventually Munches All Computer Storage Even My Aunt Crashes the System Esoteric Malleability Always Considered Silly Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists Extended Macros Are Considered Superfluous Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift Embarrassed Manual-Writer Accused of Communist Subversion Elsewhere Maybe All Commands are Simple Epileptic MLisp Aggravates Compiler Seizures Easily Mangles, Aborts, Crashes, and Segfaults Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos Did I miss any? Taken from: http://www.messengers-of-messiah.org/~csebold/emacs/why.phtml -- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
