From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 25 14:55:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3FF61065673 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:55:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-125.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-125.bluehost.com [67.222.38.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85F5D8FC0A for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:55:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 12537 invoked by uid 0); 25 Jul 2009 14:55:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2009 14:55:55 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=Rhwv721uyohe64PcozpWRNtfTA/D11+Y7uVroLcRX0VwSaVRkWyQ0azindV/+Lrtp2Z60juS4F91fq1OVEV+ut8oWnEn6a4ySaExshYzNtTe/ZEfFXy1vzg9NFmYrlj6; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MUifC-0006Ah-SZ for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:55:55 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:49:05 -0600 Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:49:05 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: "questions@freebsd.org" Message-ID: <20090725144905.GA31190@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: "questions@freebsd.org" References: <4A6A72A6.1030009@ibctech.ca> <200907251721.46003.erich@apsara.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200907251721.46003.erich@apsara.com.sg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Cc: Subject: Re: A question for developers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:55:57 -0000 --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: >=20 > I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. >=20 > All have their week points. >=20 > One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can=20 > configure each to a special need of you and then start the one=20 > which seems to fit best your current task. I find that I get the same benefit by creating multiple configuration files for a single application, and starting it with the configuration I want for the specific task at hand, if that single application with different configurations is better suited to the task at hand than some other application. For instance, I might have a .vim_ruby_rc and a =2Evim_english_rc, one for programming in Ruby and one for writing articles in English. If I want to have quick, easy startup for each, I might use aliases such as: alias evim 'vim -S .evimrc' alias rvim 'vim -S .rvimrc' If I want a quick way to remind myself what Vim configurations I have available, I might use an alias like this: alias vimlist 'alias|grep vim' I would do this sort of thing because of the unignorable boost to my productivity that I have observed when using Vim, as opposed to other editors. I don't want to give that up for some varying configuration options, using something like nano instead. If, however, you find that a different editor actually suits your needs better for a different purpose, by all means use it for that purpose. I just didn't want to leave these comments without ensuring that it's clear to anyone who doesn't already know it that it's easy to use different configurations for the same editor when using it for different purposes. I do something similar with my mail user agent, and email downloading and sending tools, so that I can work with multiple email addresses without having to use email clients I don't like. >=20 > joe has also the advantage that it behaves differently depending=20 > under which name your start it. What do you mean by "which name"? I'm curious. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything. --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkprG2EACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUiFgCg4A4ntT+XU9YqM1XarJJum9M1 OxwAni/jX0IghPLiO1KMy9QDKP4Yu8wW =K74D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx--