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novomit
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response 164 of 270:
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Aug 5 15:13 UTC 2003 |
Word sucks.
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remmers
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response 165 of 270:
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Aug 5 15:19 UTC 2003 |
Anyway, "Word" is a word processor and therefore unsuited to certain
kinds of text editing tasks.
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novomit
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response 166 of 270:
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Aug 5 15:24 UTC 2003 |
Of course, there is a handy version of vim for Windows . . . has it's faults,
but better than Notepad.
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oval
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response 167 of 270:
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Aug 5 15:31 UTC 2003 |
i alsways wonder why vi/vim users don't use mutt.
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novomit
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response 168 of 270:
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Aug 5 15:31 UTC 2003 |
I use mutt usually. At Grex anyway.
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cross
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response 169 of 270:
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Aug 5 16:04 UTC 2003 |
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novomit
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response 170 of 270:
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Aug 5 16:26 UTC 2003 |
I've used TECO before. Once. Didn't much like it at the time. Haven't seen
it since.
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aruba
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response 171 of 270:
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Aug 5 17:09 UTC 2003 |
From Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, which I see has just passed
its 20th anniversary: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
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In some companies, text editing no longer consists of ten engineers
standing in line to use an 029 keypunch. In fact, the building I work
in doesn't contain a single keypunch. The Real Programmer in this
situation has to do his work with a "text editor" program. Most
systems supply several text editors to select from, and the Real
Programmer must be careful to pick one that reflects his personal
style. Many people believe that the best text editors in the world
were written at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center for use on their Alto
and Dorado computers[3]. Unfortunately, no Real Programmer would ever
use a computer whose operating system is called SmallTalk, and would
certainly not talk to the computer with a mouse.
Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated
into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems--
EMACS and VI being two. The problem with these editors is that Real
Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad
a concept in Text Editors as it is in Women. No, the Real Programmer
wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor-- complicated,
cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise.
It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely
resembles transmission line noise than readable text[4]. One of the
more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a
command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible
typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your
program, or even worse-- introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a
once working subroutine.
For this reason, Real Programmers are reluctant to actually edit a
program that is close to working. They find it much easier to just
patch the binary object code directly.
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remmers
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response 172 of 270:
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Aug 5 18:10 UTC 2003 |
I wrote a few TECO macros in my day. Completely unreadable by
anyone else of course. A bonafide write-only scripting language.
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novomit
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response 173 of 270:
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Aug 5 18:22 UTC 2003 |
I am sure Perl could give it a run, if it came to that. I used it only once
on a VMS system. Didn't find it terribly bad, but then again, I only edited
two lines.
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other
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response 174 of 270:
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Aug 5 18:26 UTC 2003 |
bbedit
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tod
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response 175 of 270:
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Aug 5 19:07 UTC 2003 |
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cross
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response 176 of 270:
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Aug 5 20:54 UTC 2003 |
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tpryan
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response 177 of 270:
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Aug 6 01:11 UTC 2003 |
/timidly raises hand But I like the Honeywell Bull Full Screen Editor
to use as a text editor. Good monochrome editor. No wrong colors to get
annoyed at.
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russ
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response 178 of 270:
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Aug 6 02:34 UTC 2003 |
EMACS *doesn't* mean Escape Meta Alt Control Shift? Man, am I disillusioned!
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cross
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response 179 of 270:
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Aug 6 02:57 UTC 2003 |
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jaklumen
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response 180 of 270:
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Aug 6 05:34 UTC 2003 |
Yep, apparently I am *so* not computer-programmer geeky. I feel like
a right-brain in a room full of left-brains. I say, "cool, refreshing
mauve on a summer day," and they say, "5D38X3 1010001001"
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willys
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response 181 of 270:
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Aug 6 08:27 UTC 2003 |
Whoa, this is cool. Just testing out some of the commands on here.
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albaugh
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response 182 of 270:
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Aug 6 16:31 UTC 2003 |
evil free or die
(I just noticed for the very first time that live backwards is evil... ;-)
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albaugh
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response 183 of 270:
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Aug 6 16:32 UTC 2003 |
Today I noticed that the phone number listed for the Warren Ave. DOG HOUSE
restaurant is 271-DOGS.
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remmers
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response 184 of 270:
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Aug 6 18:27 UTC 2003 |
("doctor" spelled backwards is "rotcod")
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scott
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response 185 of 270:
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Aug 6 19:26 UTC 2003 |
"remmers" spelled backward is "sremmer".
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willys
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response 186 of 270:
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Aug 7 00:24 UTC 2003 |
Just for fun... what's everybody's age/sex/location on here? I'm 22/m/MN,
USA.
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sholmes
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response 187 of 270:
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Aug 7 03:15 UTC 2003 |
Just for fun I am 26/m/India.
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jaklumen
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response 188 of 270:
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Aug 7 04:09 UTC 2003 |
I don't do a/s/l checks. Droll as hell.
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