[oclug] the unix way

[Michael P. Soulier]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 06:25:12AM -0700, Francis Pinteric wrote:
> 
> Also, I have no opinion on "the one true distro" (but it isn't RedHat
> because of RPM) and the "one true editor" is ed (talking about doing
> things the unix way).

    :) Ah, a purist. 

> I myself use nedit because it's simple and most of the things I do
> don't require the kitchen sink apporach of emacs. Besides emacs never
> does white space correctly. Programmes viewed in emacs look ugly.
> Icky-pooh!

    Agreed. I went back to Vi because it doesn't lie to me and it does what
it's told. Then I found Vim. However, nedit has a good following. I've seen it
and it seems decent to me. 

    Mike

-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at storm.ca> 
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a
good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be
dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
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