Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:41:12 -0700 From: rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent somewhere. Message-ID: <3D0698A8.9C047411@pythonemproject.com> References: <OF9E088DF4.B81E2D35-ON88256BD4.0078CF5B@simrad.no> <20020611095736.A16127@lpt.ens.fr> <20020611230746.GH45825@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2002-06-11 09:57 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > I thought vi and emacs were the only Unix editors anyway... > > These are lies of the Emacs and vi folk. > The only *real* editor of UNIX is ed(1). > Here's the proof: > > $ head -56 /usr/local/share/emacs/20.7/etc/JOKES | tail -6 > When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi > *and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, > 'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor > that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time. > > Ed, man! !man ed > > /me ducks and runs > > - Giorgos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message Will it syntax highlight FORTRAN? Thats what led me to nedit originally. Now I prefer it for everything. Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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