notbob <notbob@nothome.com> trolled:
> On 2007-07-03, Rhonda Moffat <rm@justlinux.ca> wrote:

>> Jed, le, and mc are all gui editors. Guis are not necessarily
>> bitmapped applications.

> Most definitions of gui refute your claim.

Graphic User Interfaces existed before bitmapped displays. Perhaps
the definition has evolved. Perhaps not.

cordially, as always,

rm

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> trolled:
> On 2007-07-03, Rhonda Moffat <rm@justlinux.ca> wrote:

>> But it still isn't as powerful as vim. We doubt that there is
>> anything you can do with jed that you can't do with vim. And
>> vice versa is not the case.

> Nonsense. It is extensible and its power is limited only by the
> user's lisp programming abilities.

We hate the functional languages out of principle. What was it we
used to call lisp? Lots of Idiotic and Silly Parenthesis?
Something like that.

> vi, and variants, are great if you don't mind a dual mode editor.
> I hate it, so I think it sucks. Many hate multi-finger
> keystrokes, so despise emacs and variants. Again, nothing more
> sinister than simple preferences. (except vi is the heart of
> eee-ville!)

Actually there is a vi clone called "vile", isn't there? If jed, or
even joe, had existed when we started out on unix, we probably would
never have learned vi. But we did, and it's really like riding a
bicycle. Often, while using another editor, we will move our pinky
up and hit the escape key...

cordially, as always,

rm

Rhonda Moffat a écrit :
>
> Hardly. X doesn't even come ready to go in slackware. And the
> default editor is elvis, for gawd's sakes.

export EDITOR=C:\Program\ Files\wordpad.exe


> Printer setup is still a bear.

That's where you see the difference between boys and men.

cordially, as usual,

Niki

Kiki Novacs <mickey@mouse.com> trolled:
>Rhonda Moffat a ?crit :
>
>> Hardly. X doesn't even come ready to go in slackware. And the
>> default editor is elvis, for gawd's sakes.

>export EDITOR=C:\Program\ Files\wordpad.exe

That's what you would prefer? We use vim, ourself, on all OS.

>> Printer setup is still a bear.

>That's where you see the difference between boys and men.

Why don't you give us a tutorial on setting up our Lexmark X5270 for
linux?

>cordially, as usual,

>Niki

Actually, it is Kiki, isn't it?

cordially, as always,

rm
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things it lacks... not has. -- ANC

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:23:48 +0000, Realto wrote:

>>> Printer setup is still a bear.

>>That's where you see the difference between boys and men.

> Why don't you give us a tutorial on setting up our Lexmark X5270 for
> linux?

Only boys use Lexmark printers, and only boys need a tutorial, boy.

> cordially, as always,

Smeg off.


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