In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:25:53 EST
Tom Buskey said:
My vi skills are not as good as my emacs skills. The discussion helps.
I have to agree. I've always used vi et al as a quick'n'dirty
editor for things I need to do real quickly. Anything that I need to
spend a lot of time
Screen has been around forever, which accomplishes the same thing.
And, vim also supports this functionality.
Well, I guess for relatively small values of 'forever' :)
Here, just FYA, is a pretty good representation of history to help
you calculate an upper bound for possible values of
Just to be picky, the MkLinux timeline ends with DR-3, the last release
backed by Apple Computer. It totally ignores stuff that the community
has been doing since. This matters to me because I use MkLinux Pre-R1 on
my web server.
Maybe I should let the person responsible for the site know
In a message dated: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:41:14 EST
Michael O'Donnell said:
Here, just FYA, is a pretty good representation of history to help
you calculate an upper bound for possible values of 'forever'
http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#01
Outstanding! This seems to be an extension
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geez. *Light* has some latency issues, too. I spent years at 2400 baud
on dialup systems where colored text was considered an advanced feature.
And I'm just a young'un. There are people on the list who remember when
teletypes really did *type*.
I'm only 32 (well
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:40:47 EST
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, at 1:04pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this type of thing were being done from a web app running from a CGI,
it might turn out to be faster with perl if the use mod_perl than spawning
a new awk
Since screen depends on pseudo-ttys it's
unlikely that it was around before they
were first implemented...
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In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:47:41 EST
Tom Buskey said:
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:57:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(granted, I don't do this often, and more times than not, I ssh to
the remote machine, co the file from RCS, vi it, etc.)
emacs works well with RCS/CVS too. I
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:16:53 EST
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Footnotes
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[1] Plain Old Telephone Service. The technical term (really!) for what
most people think is the only kind of phone line.
You mean it isn't? ;)
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Paul
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Ooo. A Perl flamewar.
All it takes to start one is
'Hello, world.'
you_REALLY_have_to_be_careful'ly yours,
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In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:06:29 EST
John Abreau said:
As for invoking it, it turns out to be fairly straightforward. I had to
download ange-ftp-over-ssh.tar.gz, move the nftp.pl script into
my PATH, and add a line to my .emacs:
I had a lot of trouble getting ange-ftp to work
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Subject: Re: Humor: Cargo Cult Programming
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, at 6:17pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I've said before, I suspect
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:08:39 EST
Derek Martin said:
At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly:
Before the widspread use of windowing systems, emacs provided the multi-
windows support.
Screen has been around forever, which accomplishes the same thing.
And, vim
(Amusingly, I seem to break every generalization you mention :)
In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 22:00:32 EST
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, at 6:17pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I've said before, I suspect that emacs- and perl-users are actually the
higher life forms ...
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You ain't a young'un... ;-) Ben's in his early-mid 20's. Even
that's not really a young'un to me...
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My neighbor is looking for a 9 monochrome monitor for a metal working
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Thanks.
Ed
At 02:22 PM 11/15/2002 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
I have a gazallion of those IBM monitors, not 9 inches a little larger
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If interested $15.00 plus shipping? OBO
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Tom Buskey said:
My vi skills are not as good as my emacs skills. The discussion helps.
I'm sort of in between. I've been using vi since 1983, and emacs since
1996.
I tend to use emacs mostly for coding
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Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My first 'net connection was over a 2400 baud modem to a Unix server. I
used that modem for 3 years before I could afford a 14400 modem. I used
that for
John Abreau said:
I'm sort of in between. I've been using vi since 1983, and emacs since
1996.
I tend to use emacs mostly for coding and scripting, as most of the stuff
I'd do in vi is second nature at this point, whereas I still have to
think about how to do a lot of things in emacs.
I
John Abreau said:
I tend to use emacs mostly for coding and scripting, as most of the stuff
I'd do in vi is second nature at this point, whereas I still have to
think about how to do a lot of things in emacs.
I'm amazed at how many places you find emacs style keystrokes.
Mozilla, exmh's
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:55:31PM -0500, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Abreau said:
I tend to use emacs mostly for coding and scripting, as most of the stuff
I'd do in vi is second nature at this point, whereas I still have to
think about how to do a lot of things in emacs.
John Abreau said:
My first connection was via an old thermal-print teletype with a built-in
110/300 baud acoustic coupler, dialed into a Vax/VMS system at Northeastern
University. Took about four seconds to print a single line. Now *that*
was painful!
A TI Silent 700? I used to use one to
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:14:40PM -0500, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
This message isn't intended to start an emacs vs. vi flamewar --
really, I'm just looking to understand how other people using
different editors handle these situations.
Emacs has a scheme for handling compilation of
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:57:44PM -0500, Steven Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Emacs has a general scheme for auto-completing keywords. Let's say
that I have three files loaded into Emacs, two locally and one
remotely (via a ssh connection, for example). Let's say that the file
on the
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:08:46PM -0500, Bob Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suppose I decide that this looks horrible, and I want to clean this
up. In Emacs I can type a few keys and transmorgify things thusly:
snip
Out of curiosity, does VIM do anything like this?
I'm not sure
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