Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-12 Thread Marcus Andree
There's some doubt if someone will achieve a valid OpenBSD binary. Also, the program may be subject to virus and trojan horses on its way to an OpenBSD system. :) 2008/5/9 David Gwynne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: copy con program.exe

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-09 Thread David Gwynne
copy con program.exe

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-08 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:42:53AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: ropers wrote: 2008/5/4 Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [vim] alters files in unexpected ways, which I consider a major sin. I didn't know that, and cursory googling didn't turn up anything enlightening. Could you elaborate?

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-08 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:55:55PM +0100, overdrive openbsd wrote: I don't want to start a flamewar, but I will say my experience; after lot of years using vi and vim, I decide 'taste' emacs. Now I can see that the major part of users those use vi/vim is because they never tried more than 5

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-08 Thread Marco Peereboom
Or you could just use vim... On May 7, 2008, at 3:12 PM, overdrive openbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always use the name of comand instead keystrokes. Also you can customize these keys and change the defaults (customizable) On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-08 Thread Martin Marcher
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Matthew Szudzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And anyway, I'm a minimalist (that's why I run OpenBSD). Really? Funny, I get the feeling that I was forced to be a minimalist for _not_ using OpenBSD the more I discover it... -- http://tumblr.marcher.name

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-08 Thread Marc Balmer
The nice thing about editors is that we have so many of them to choose from. Everyone will be happy, like some prefer blondes, other brunettes ... ;) Today one of our servers decided to send one of it's disks to the abyss, I was happy to be able to edit /etc/fstab in ed while in single user

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:02:22PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: The nice thing about editors is that we have so many of them to choose from. Everyone will be happy, like some prefer blondes, other brunettes ... ;) Today one of our servers decided to send one of it's disks to the abyss, I was

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread overdrive openbsd
Hi Jordi, I don't want to start a flamewar, but I will say my experience; after lot of years using vi and vim, I decide 'taste' emacs. Now I can see that the major part of users those use vi/vim is because they never tried more than 5 minutes on emacs or directly they never tried. Now I am more

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread Darrin Chandler
I used Emacs for more than 10 years, and now I use vim. I like it better. There is no single thing that is right for everyone. On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:55:55PM +0100, overdrive openbsd wrote: Hi Jordi, I don't want to start a flamewar, but I will say my experience; after lot of years using

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread Mark Pecaut
On 5/6/08, Emilio Perea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I've never had to deal with Vista, previous versions of Windows had a Resource Kit available which includes vi. With some Vista versions you can install SUA (Subsystem for UNIX Applications) which includes tcsh and ksh with vi

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread Marco Peereboom
I gave emacs quite the fighting chance. Used it for 4 weeks and could not deal with the sore hands fingers anymore. emacs is great for people that don't mind finger gymnastics. Vim is much nicer for people with sore hands. On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:55:55PM +0100, overdrive openbsd wrote: Hi

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread kjbl . 2390675
If you want to stick with what's in the tree, mg does a fine job. Compiles, parses errors, jumps to the correct line, and so on.

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread overdrive openbsd
You can always use the name of comand instead keystrokes. Also you can customize these keys and change the defaults (customizable) On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gave emacs quite the fighting chance. Used it for 4 weeks and could not deal with the

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread Matthew Szudzik
I learned emacs before vi, but I could never remember all of emacs' complicated keystrokes. It feels as though there are far fewer commands to memorize in vi, and the commands that I do memorize are also useful for writing sed scripts--so the payoff of a little memorization in vi is greater than

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread kjbl . 2390675
--- Matthew Szudzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And anyway, I'm a minimalist (that's why I run OpenBSD). nvi is fine--vim and emacs just have too much bloat. Which is why we have mg in tree: emacs without the bloat.

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-07 Thread James Peltier
http://xkcd.com/378/ --- James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.site-fx.net --- On Wed, 5/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Editing C with... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Received: Wednesday

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread mickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. it's not the size of your editor -- it's what you do w/

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread HDC
I use vi and geany.. -- # /dev/hdc - OpenBSDeros.org hdc [at] openbsderos [dot] org

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread bofh
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I picked up a copy of TCPIP Illustrated, and am going through the examples. For example. I think that's a good way to do it. I really should replace my copy that was stolen from my car one of these days. And

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: -Original Message- From: Steve Shockley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:56 AM To: misc Subject: Re: Editing C with... Nick Holland wrote: but I WOULD tell any new user: learn the base

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Healey wrote: for the record, it's VERY broken in Vista. running edit in cmd or powershell, gives, |=== |16 bit MS-DS Subsytem |x| |=== | |Windows PowerShell |NTVDM has

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread Emilio Perea
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:46:33AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: for the record, it's VERY broken in Vista. running edit in cmd or powershell, gives, |=== |16 bit MS-DS Subsytem |x| |=== | |Windows PowerShell |NTVDM

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emilio Perea wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:46:33AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: for the record, it's VERY broken in Vista. running edit in cmd or powershell, gives, |=== |16 bit MS-DS Subsytem |x|

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-05 Thread Artur Grabowski
Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: He is eluding to things like smart tabs and auto indent. Those are disabled by default on vim and when programming they are both a curse and a gift from the gods. I'll admit to having spend more than a few minutes fine tuning that. I am an old vi

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-05 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
-Original Message- From: Steve Shockley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 9:56 AM To: misc Subject: Re: Editing C with... Nick Holland wrote: but I WOULD tell any new user: learn the base system tools first. More to the point, have a working knowledge of ed

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-05 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:14:14AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Yes, I know, you can turn off all that crap, but if I'm trying to configure or administer a system, my first goal is not to spend an hour moving in...make the changes needed, and move on, and NOT fix the editor. And there it is,

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-05 Thread John Nietzsche
for me, vi and vim are the ones. Would you mind explaining me i am just learning C applied in networking area ? On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-05 Thread bofh
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 8:45 PM, John Nietzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for me, vi and vim are the ones. Would you mind explaining me i am just learning C applied in networking area ? I picked up a copy of TCPIP Illustrated, and am going through the examples. HTH. --

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-05 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
Would you mind explaining me i am just learning C applied in networking area ? I picked up a copy of TCPIP Illustrated, and am going through the examples. For example. -- Thanks, Jordi Espasa Clofent

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 03.05.2008 um 19:56 schrieb Jordi Espasa Clofent: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. I am using two editors on a regular base: vi that is

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread ropers
2008/5/4 Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [vim] alters files in unexpected ways, which I consider a major sin. I didn't know that, and cursory googling didn't turn up anything enlightening. Could you elaborate? Thanks and regards, --ropers

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Marco Peereboom
He is eluding to things like smart tabs and auto indent. Those are disabled by default on vim and when programming they are both a curse and a gift from the gods. I'll admit to having spend more than a few minutes fine tuning that. I am an old vi rat that finally caved to vim for several

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Holland wrote: but I WOULD tell any new user: learn the base system tools first. More to the point, have a working knowledge of ed. Had a royal PITA the other day when I misspelled softdep in the /usr line in fstab, and didn't know how to use ed. Most modern OSs (with the exception

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am an old vi rat that finally caved to vim for several reasons. [...] * tab complete commands and filenames in command mode FWIW, nvi supports file name completion on the colon command line, you just have to enable it with the filec variable.

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Dorian Büttner
Steve Shockley schrieb: Had a royal PITA the other day when I misspelled softdep in the /usr line in fstab, and didn't know how to use ed. No prob w/o ed :) You can just cat /etc/fstab | grep -v usr /etc/fstab.new followed by echo 'whatever' /etc/fstab.new and then mv everything to

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Nick Holland
ropers wrote: 2008/5/4 Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [vim] alters files in unexpected ways, which I consider a major sin. I didn't know that, and cursory googling didn't turn up anything enlightening. Could you elaborate? Thanks and regards, --ropers It might have been better if I

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 08:19:24AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: He is eluding to things like smart tabs and auto indent. Those are disabled by default on vim and when programming they are both a curse and a gift from the gods. I'll admit to having spend more than a few minutes fine tuning

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Quoted from Girish Venkatachalam on Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:18:10AM +0530,: On 13:51:58 May 03, Robert C Wittig wrote: vi/vim. I use it for most of my editing tasks, not just writing C code. I use vim since it enhances my coding speed in

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread William Boshuck
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:32:28PM +0200, Dorian B|ttner wrote: Steve Shockley schrieb: Had a royal PITA the other day when I misspelled softdep in the /usr line in fstab, and didn't know how to use ed. No prob w/o ed :) You can just cat /etc/fstab | grep -v usr /etc/fstab.new

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Åke Nordin
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Stephan Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah, teco. Or, SOS --STeve Andre' (ducks) AMIS, in fuldamental mode. At least one old hand will recall times when v7 wasn't much more than rumours in our part of the world, and the creatures of rms still were mostly

Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. -- Thanks, Jordi Espasa Clofent

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Manuel Wildauer
vim :) LG Manuel On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. I asked

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread bofh
Real men use ed. On 5/3/08, Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. --

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Miod Vallat
Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. The developers are known to use vi variants (nvi, vim) and emacs variants (mg,

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. I am a

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Pierre Riteau
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. --

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Alexander Schrijver
Real men use butterflies. On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:15:19PM -0400, bofh wrote: Real men use ed. On 5/3/08, Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. vi/vim. I use it for most of my editing tasks, not

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Andreas Maus
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:15:19PM -0400, bofh wrote: Real men use ed. No. REAL programmers use ... http://xkcd.com/378/ Sorry, couldn't resist ;) Andreas. -- Windows 95: A 32-bit patch for a 16-bit GUI shell running on top of an 8-bit operating system written for a 4-bit processor by a

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Mark Mathias
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Alexander Schrijver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Real men use butterflies. On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:15:19PM -0400, bofh wrote: Real men use ed. On 5/3/08, Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Marco Peereboom
vim of course! the emacs people are weird :-) On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:51:58 May 03, Robert C Wittig wrote: vi/vim. I use it for most of my editing tasks, not just writing C code. I use vim since it enhances my coding speed in a big way. As to KNF I guess it is just a habit that I want to inculcate for all my C coding. Right now it is voluntary and

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Owain Ainsworth
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim.

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:15:19PM -0400, bofh wrote: Real men use ed. No, real men get it right the first time and don't need to edit, they just use echo or something. :) Doug.

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:48:36PM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Real men use.whatever editor is comfortable for them. Vi, vim, emacs, xwpe, anjuta, kdevelop, joe, ed, etcused by a stupid guy does not produce quality code at all. So...try all and choose the most comfortable

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread bofh
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:15:19PM -0400, bofh wrote: Real men use ed. No, real men get it right the first time and don't need to edit, they just use echo or something. Hush now, or I'll make you use teco! :) --

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Stephan Andre'
On Saturday 03 May 2008 21:20:29 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:48:36PM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Real men use.whatever editor is comfortable for them. Vi, vim, emacs, xwpe, anjuta, kdevelop, joe, ed, etcused by a stupid guy does not produce quality

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Nick Holland
Owain Ainsworth wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment