Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 02:11:24 +0000 From: Mark Valentine <mark@valentine.me.uk> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon photos Message-ID: <200309230111.h8N1BO1j028055@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <20030923002057.GA1491@online.fr>
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> From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
> Date: Mon 22 Sep, 2003
> Subject: Re: BSDCon photos
> If you like all that, you may like links (in the ports) -- it has
> graphical as well as text-only modes, and even does some javascript I
> think
HTML without CSS is just too painful; decent graphical presentation is a
core requirement for a web browser (and no, typical web browsers aren't my
idea of a good application architecture...).
I don't use mush and trn because I dislike a GUI, but because there are no
GUI equivalents which are equally competent at their core functions and suit
my style of working.
I don't give up hope completely against finding more modern equivalents -
it's not so many years since I finally abandoned a locally hacked version
of the non-open non-portable Warwick shell for bash, once bash finally grew
enough knobs to emulate what I found was a most natural style (essentially
satisfied by tab-completion with show-all-if-ambiguous combined with
history-search-{forward,backward} bound to ^N/^P, which was the hardwired
behaviour of our hacked up wash since the mid-80s). It was a breath of fresh
air to escape the restrictions of that old shell without losing its essential
advantages.
Cheers,
Mark.
--
"Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich."
"We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch*
-- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>;
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