Re: text editor and your postscript
To Matthias Apitz I read with interest your contribution and those of others in text editor usage. In this I do not have much to contribute as I am so far perfectly happy with vi. BUT I noticed your political comment at the end of your contribution. I find this out of place as this questions site is for FreeBSD problems and not political ones. Could you please take your political comments and place them on appropriate sites where such comments belong. I keep with president Barack Obama, who has a law degree from Harvard and sees the necessity to set up a commission to analyse the matter before taking part in the international howling choir against Israel. Yours sincerely Richard Farnes On Wednesday 02 June 2010 13:33:44 Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, June 02, 2010 a las 01:26:44PM +0200, Ruben de Groot escribió: The phrase son of an edlin has happily been retired in my vocabulary for some time. If you're not aware of it, ed(1) is as capable or more of causing pain as edlin was and it's still in the FreeBSD base. Most usefull traditional Unix tools can cause pain or foot-shooting. That's what makes them usefull. The ed(1) is *extremely* useful when it comes to editing text files on the fly in shell scripts (i.e. without user interaction). matthias Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: text editor and your postscript
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Richard T C Farnes wrote: To Matthias Apitz I read with interest your contribution and those of others in text editor usage. In this I do not have much to contribute as I am so far perfectly happy with vi. BUT I noticed your political comment at the end of your contribution. I find this out of place as this questions site is for FreeBSD problems and not political ones. Could you please take your political comments and place them on appropriate sites where such comments belong. I keep with president Barack Obama, who has a law degree from Harvard and sees the necessity to set up a commission to analyse the matter before taking part in the international howling choir against Israel. Yours sincerely Richard Farnes I don't recall any netiquette rules about making your signature block on-topic. Aren't you getting a bit uptight? If anything, it's *you* who took things into the realm of politics by pulling it out of the signature block where it belonged. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpFgHoUVbcNq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: text editor and your postscript
On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:49:04PM +0200, Richard T C Farnes wrote: To Matthias Apitz [ ...snip ...] Yours sincerely Richard Farnes I don't recall any netiquette rules about making your signature block on-topic. Aren't you getting a bit uptight? If anything, it's *you* who took things into the realm of politics by pulling it out of the signature block where it belonged. Nicely put Chad. sigs can be easily ignored, or filtered. Politics and religion are not allowed on this list, unless they relate to ``technical'' politics/religion. ...here's an example... use vi(m). It solves ALL of the world's problems. Steve ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: text editor and your postscript
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote: If anything, it's *you* who took things into the realm of politics by pulling it out of the signature block where it belonged. Nicely put Chad. Thanks! ...here's an example... use vi(m). It solves ALL of the world's problems. I'm beginning to think nvi, in particular, might do so. For one thing, it has a friendlier license (since we're getting political) than Vim, and for another it has better undo support than I realized. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgpmPYsBpPisA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: text editor and your postscript
On 2010.06.03 20:40, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: ...here's an example... use vi(m). It solves ALL of the world's problems. I'm beginning to think nvi, in particular, might do so. For one thing, it has a friendlier license (since we're getting political) than Vim, and for another it has better undo support than I realized. Can I use my .vimrc? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: text editor and your postscript
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:40:14PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:25:54PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: On 2010.06.03 19:46, Chad Perrin wrote: If anything, it's *you* who took things into the realm of politics by pulling it out of the signature block where it belonged. Nicely put Chad. Thanks! ...here's an example... use vi(m). It solves ALL of the world's problems. I'm beginning to think nvi, in particular, might do so. For one thing, it has a friendlier license (since we're getting political) than Vim, and for another it has better undo support than I realized. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] my 27 cents' worth [[[inflation]]]: YES on the vim undo. i've lost scores of lines and messed up other files than code.' gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
