Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:52:26 +0100 From: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <20011002135226.A33832@jake.akitanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011002133112.B98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:31:12PM %2B0100 References: <20010927141333.A44288@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <p05100334b7d8e6544d17@[194.78.144.27]> <20011002133112.B98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Oct 2, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote: > I just came to a new conclusion. I think code formatting and personal > style might be directly related to the editor preferred. This <snip> In that case, I must be a freak. I do about 90% of my code editing in vi and ed, with mail editing (like now) in pico (backed onto mutt). I have to say, it takes hard work, but the nature of my job means I end up doing a hell of a lot of code editing on live, remote servers. Don't ask. Needless to say, when you have minicom up, and you're dialled into a BSD box 300 miles away and you need to change that line *there* and the term settings aren't right, you end up quickly re-learning ed. Very quickly. And yes, we can talk about rolling out code releases etc. but customer confidentiality stops me from telling you quite what it is we do, and why I need to mod code already released. :-) Anyway, I really used to get on with nedit but the PHP support was non-existant and a lot of my bigger projects get done in that rather cute language. I don't know why I stopped using nedit, I just did. Found myself back in the world of <ESC>:wq! all of a sudden. I once tried learning emacs but didn't get on with it. Maybe one day. -- PR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011002135226.A33832>