From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 2 5:52:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from jake.akitanet.co.uk (jake.akitanet.co.uk [212.1.130.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6E937B406 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsl-212-135-208-201.dsl.easynet.co.uk ([212.135.208.201] helo=wopr.akitanet.co.uk) by jake.akitanet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #3) id 15oP1y-0003wp-00; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:52:14 +0100 Received: from wiggy by wopr.akitanet.co.uk with local (Exim 3.21 #2) id 15oP2A-0008o6-00; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:52:26 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 13:52:26 +0100 From: Paul Robinson To: j mckitrick Cc: Brad Knowles , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: code density vs readability Message-ID: <20011002135226.A33832@jake.akitanet.co.uk> References: <20010927141333.A44288@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20011002133112.B98079@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 +0100 X-Scanner: exiscan *15oP1y-0003wp-00*$AK$fvVAPs46/aYSS/s0DEshr/* Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Oct 2, j mckitrick wrote: > I just came to a new conclusion. I think code formatting and personal > style might be directly related to the editor preferred. This 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 :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