7 Jan
2010
7 Jan
'10
2:05 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:22:08PM -1000, david wrote:
Brett McCoy wrote:
Back in the early 90's, a friend and I were discussing having to deal with DOS. He
said, "EDLIN is not a text editor. EDLIN is a file mangler."
Also, the #debian channel bot used to have a command called "start a flamewar".
It had a database of inflammatory comments either praising or disparaging emacs, vi, or
various languages. Back when that channel was very noisy and chatty and off-topic, the
flamewar command was always good for entertainment. Lately the channel seems to be much
more on-topic. Which is probably a good thing.
Religious wars in general are very tedious. I inadvertently started one yesterday whilst
reporting a weird Windoze file-permissions problem to a cow-orker, and asked if there was
any Microshaftian equivalent to strace and lsof that might help him figure it out. In
response, I got a content-free and completely off-topic tirade about Linux binary
compatibility-- as if he'd never heard of package managers or distros. Um, whatever
man, just fix yer Windoze problem; I don't know how to use "Process
Explorer", and I don't ever want to know either.
-ken
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Ng Oon-Ee
<ngoonee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
sed
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 20:44 +0100, Arnold Krille
wrote:
Real Programmers use cat On Sunday 03 January 2010 20:13:03 Ken Restivo
wrote:
> Others might list the Church of Emacs instead, praise St. IGNUtius.
But everyone knows that only Vi is the true saviour!
And here we go again....
Anyone here attends the cult of nano?