The accounting of startup time gives us a lot of complications. The greatest one is the inequality of the users with different hardware setups. I think it's not good for editors war. Pavel
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:55 PM, tommed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marc, > > With regard to cheating; it doesn't matter what we say (eg. "use a > camcorder and have a clock in view") there will always be ways to > cheat at games! Because we don't currently have any prizes; I'm hoping > that people will realise there isn't really much to be made by > cheating!! > > Also, the transcripts should help us decide whether or not what they > are doing is possible in the time they are doing it. > > I have been thinking of whether or not we should start the timer from > opening the file; or from the text editor fully loaded. I realise that > a lot of the heavy-duty IDEs will have features that are only possible > due to their massive size... I can see arguments on both sides, so we > can probably figure this out through trial an error? > > Because the challenges will vary so much; the large IDEs will > obviously not always be the ideal tool; but I think if we took the > time to start the IDE into consideration; Eclipse and Visual Studios > will probably be completely out of the equation... however, may be > they should be as we have to wait for them to load anyway before we > use them in real-life situations..? (One of the reasons I switched > from Visual Studios to VIM at work anyway!) > > I'd say for now, we could probably start with the text file open, but > then play it by ear? > > > On Aug 3, 10:40 am, Marc Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > Excerpts from tommed's message of Tue Aug 03 11:12:27 +0200 2010: > > > > > Great feedback, many thanks! > > > I have just updated the site, taking your excellent suggestions on > > > board. > > > > quote: > > > > 1) You MUST use a default install (iow. no custom scripts or > modifications) > > of the text editor of your choice > > > > 2) You may use any version of the text editor (vi/vim/gvim/gnu > > emacs/xemacs/nano/ed/pico etc..), we even welcome users of Notepad, > > Eclipse, and Visual Studio!! > > > > Which operating System? Eg Linux has different versions of Vim. > > huge vim (with X and scripting support for Ruby, Python, ..) > > or tiny vim without X, without quickfix, without ... > > > > You're looking for masters - but they all have custom scripts. > > > > If it comes to Eclipse: When does the time tacking start? > > When you start the Editor, or when it already started. > > When using Eclipse this may make a difference. > > > > 6) Upload your video to YouTube and post the URL as a response on our > > site > > > > How do you catch people speeding up their videos? I mean is there any > > chance that this competition is fair? Or will the man / woman win who > > can best postprocess the video before uploading it to YouTube? > > > > Also in both: emacs and vim you can easily copy paste a clipboard to get > > scripts you want. > > eg :call writefile('my.vim',[lines])| source my.vim > > > > Is this allowed? > > > > Marc Weber > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
