Comment Re: Buy a Mac (Score 1) 554
If you search everymac.com you can easily find out which macs can run which versions of MacOS.
If you search everymac.com you can easily find out which macs can run which versions of MacOS.
... and keep those sheep quiet - no bleating to change any resonant properties of anything during the flyby
Right - like - call your phone vendor if you experience loss of service... Never figured that one out either...
I write of the order of tens of thousands of lines of Perl a year. Most of it runs for years without any need for debugging. Easier to write something that works correctly the first time. At least - I find it so. And, yes, I program in quite a number of other mainstream languages too - as well as a number of others that aren't like APL and Prolog. But - this thread was about vi
Agreed - I teach Perl programming. I *try* not to teach it to people who can't program, but you never know who will turn up in a class...
Not seen much Star Trek I take it
You're right. It was an octal keypad - not a set of toggle switches. My bad. PDP 11/34.
So, - here's the bottom line. Almost nobody here agrees with the OP premise
First thing I do on almost any Windoze system is to install a full Cygwin setup. Makes it usable
Besides... ed's luxury... By, - when I were't lad we used to toggle in t'code from t'front panel by 'and in octal. None of this fancy editor nonsense...
Well I was going to talk about ed - acutally I was going to mention ex first and then work back to ed - but I thought folks might not know what they were
It's a matter of functionality, speed of use and the commonality of embedded operations that work the same as in other UN*X tools. Incredibly powerful. Would pay to have vi on systems that don't have it.
vi or nothing. Not vim, not gvim, nvi or anything else. No A, B, C or D.
s/to big/too big/
Did they go back to the better pre-Astralwhatever GUI yet? That's the major concern I have - the new one made it unsuable since I keep multiple tabs open in multiple rows. The new interface made it way to big and none of the add-ons made it look like it used to. Until they fix that it's a non-starter to upgrade for me.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion