From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 19 02:24:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA16976 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA16970 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 02:24:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA03621; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:24:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek Received: (from ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA07394; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:26:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:26:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199607190926.FAA07394@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> X-Mailer: slnr v.2.13 as ported to FreeBSD cc: chat@freebsd.org To: jfieber@indiana.edu Subject: Re: Re: Re: FreeBSD keyboard Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In Email, John Fieber wrote: I fixed the cc: list to have chat@freebsd again, since it was my fooling around with a new mailer that got rid of it in the first place. > On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > For something with fairly simple and regular layout, sure. For > something like WIRED, probably not. SGML (in spirit) completely > separates presentation from content. At one end of the text Well yes, that's what the SGML gurus seem to say when they are waxing philosophical... :) I think it could be done, but the sheer complexity caused by the number of elements and attributes that would be necessary would make it rather impractical. > > You forgot diff. > > Diff is an easy one! You have two, possibly three files, plop > them on your diff tool, cruncha, cruncha, cruncha, then you have > highlighted side-by side comparisons with differences highlighted > in different colors, you just go through selecting which pieces > you want from which file, generating a new file. If all you want > is a patch file, even easier. Adjust a few knobs on the diff > tool for how you want the diff generated, then drag your files, > or a whole folder of files in and bam, there is your diff! You make it sound so exciting! :) "cruncha, cruncha" ... "adjust a few knobs" ... "bam, there is your diff!" :) The problem, as I see it, is that if you are going to have to resort to using icons for tools, you could end up with such a large number of icons (and remember, each of these icons must be large enough for a few knobs (or does the icon grow larger when we drop something on it to allow finer control?)) that the whole system becomes unuseable. Or, maybe in practice it's not necessary to have more than a single row of icons. -- -- tIM...HOEk Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? NEVER!