What I miss is the companionship of the horse when plowing the fields. Using a tractor and getting paid by the hour is not as much fun. But more efficient............
Garry Smith Dir. Info Systems Charles McMurray Company V# 559-292-5782 F# 559-346-6169 CONFIDENCE NOTICE: This is an e-mail message, theretofore may have many accompanying documents, and is truly for the intended recipient(s) and heretofore may contain data and information. Surely any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying could become arum nauseous. If you are not the intended recipient, please look deep within yourself by any means and immediately forgo digesting the original message. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Banker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [U2] Comparison Unidata and Universe > > One thing I miss from the Prime editor is overlay. All you had to do is > space out to where you wanted to overly the text and overlay with the new > characters. It was very useful when you had a long string with several > instances of the same type of information and you only wanted to change > one > area. > Example: > DATA = 'AAABBBCCCAAABBBCCCAAABBBCCC' > O ZZZ > DATA = 'AAABBBCCCAAABBBCCCZZZBBBCCC' > Sure beat having to type the whole line or doing a long change. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warren, Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:24 PM > Subject: RE: [U2] Comparison Unidata and Universe > > > As a system administrator, my choice is to use vi for my UNIX/AIX duties, > but I find it's quite a useful tool for program editing too. In fact, I'm > the only one in our shop that uses vi on a regular basis. I still can't > figure out why the remainder of our programming staff use AE. I agree it > has it's place for some tasks, but for day to day editing, I find vi easy > to > use, and it didn't take too long to get used to, when I learned it years > ago. The best part is that you'll find it on most flavors of UNIX boxes, > and the basic commands stay the same. -Phil- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Louis Guillaume [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [U2] Comparison Unidata and Universe > > > Adrian Matthews wrote: > > Does anyone actually use the editor for cutting code these days though? > > > > Absolutely! From what I've seen, most folks who take the time to learn > vi will never go back. > > The only thing AE is good for is macro-fixing savedlists of records, > IMHO. It really astonishes me that folks continue to use AE for editing > programs where you can really only look at one line at a time. > > > I've been using full screen GUI editors for years now. I think I'd pull > > my hair out going back. > > GUI editors generally lack many of the vi features: use of regular > expressions, superior cut and paste, multiple cut/paste buffers, the > ability to read the output of external commands into the file, the > ability to employ Unix shell utilities (like sed or awk) to edit the > file etc etc. > > The only GUI editor I'd use for programming is vim! It is absolutely > worth it to learn vi or vim for editing in UniData (and, I'm sure > UniVerse too). If you're on Windows, there's Vim for Windows. > > I don't know much about UniVerse, but I can't imagine that an editor > should make any difference as most editors should be available to either > platform. On UniData just set the variable UDT_EDIT=/usr/local/bin/vim > (or whatever your editor is) and voila. > > -- Louis > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
