On 2008-11-13, MBro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Bram for your response. I'm hoping to move to a *nix OS > soon, and then my insanity will settle. I've done a few more tests > and slight code modifications, and got it working to my own > satisfaction.
A few years ago, the company I work for took all the developers' Unix workstations away, put the major Unix applications on servers in a back room, and gave everyone Windows PCs and commercial Windows X servers for their desktops. I tried this for a few months and it drove be absolutely bonkers, there were so many things it didn't do right, even with the aid of utilities such as TXMouse (which I like better than X-Mouse). I now also have a Linux workstation on my desktop with a real X server and it is _so_ nice--it just works. Putting Cygwin on the Windows machine has also helped my disposition when I have to use that one. > Even though I use about 1/1000th of the functionality, this is the > only nuance I actually had to do something about [And I blame > Windows 100%]. > > Though, I do wonder how many people shutdown other applications, > because they're used to whacking the ESC key! During the period when I was trying to use a Windows desktop for development, I also used the company-approved IM client, which would steal the keyboard focus whenever a new message arrived. I lost a lot of messages because they would pop up just as I was hitting Esc in vim. Regards, Gary --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
