Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-11 Thread Frank Küster
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: Juergen Salk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, mined, ne, nedit and zed.

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? No, there's actually three classes: Simple editors for newbies, not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors, and religions. ae is the religion variety.

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: Juergen Salk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not belong to

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-10 Thread Miles Bader
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're right in general, but there actually seems to be a fairly distinct divide in editors, between simple editors for newbs and not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? Naw, it just needs powerful added

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-09 Thread Miles Bader
Juergen Salk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not belong to them. Does that mean these are less powerful than the

Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 03:28:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like powerful in package descriptions in general. Sounds like something

Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Juergen Salk
* Vincent Fourmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060107 14:13]: Description : tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby First of all: This is not against you, Vincent. :-) I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like powerful in package

Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like powerful in package descriptions in general. Sounds like something that should be added to lintian. I suggest filing a wishlist bug with