[geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Small schools.& elections

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Besides, editing errors are simple to fix with sed.y

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Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> Geez, I avoid all editors and simply use "cat - > <filename>", since I don't have coding errors ;^P
> 
> Back in the day, I used to simply set the data toggle switches on th efront panel, then increment the address counter and write the character to memory ;^P
> 
> Ken
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael S. Schiller [mailto:schiller at agrijag.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:08 AM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Small schools.& elections
> 
> 
> You know in this 'holy war' between emacs & vi, they're both second rate. If
> you want a truly powerful editor you need to get pico :)
> 
> -Mike
> 
> "Joshua D. Boyd" wrote:
> 
> > Since we are discussing religion and politics, I've moved this to geeks.
> >
> > In this day and age of monstrous amounts of CPU cylces going unused, isn't
> > it time to use a text editor that pretends to have a brain?
> >
> > For instance, in the two emacs (I don't believe in keeping only one copy
> > of emacs open) that I have open now, one of them is managing the white
> > space in some python scripts (python was meant to be edited with a smart
> > editor, I kid you not), and provides a class browser.
> >
> > The other is opened to a C++ project.  It takes me to build errors, does
> > syntax highlighting, and highlights the current code in the GDB.
> >
> > I'm sure you've heard these things before.  I understand prefering vi's
> > keysequences to emacs chords, but what makes people prefer such a lack of
> > features?
> >
> > --
> > Joshua Boyd
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Amy wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > >
> > > > So, what do you use for text processor Amy?
> > >
> > > vi.
> > >
> > > --a
> > >
> > >
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