Re: PHP Editor

You know Windows is really unstable when you have to restart it more than a Mac. By the way, if you haven't had the pleasure of playing with OS X, you are going to love it. It's strange running a Mac, and not being able to crash the system. :) > From: jeremy brand <jeremy@smackdown.com> > Reply-To: jeremy@nirvani.net > Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 18:27:14 -0800 (PST) > To: "Sander Pilon" <sander@3dnews.net>, jeremy@nirvani.net, "Jeff > Stuart" > <jstuart@ohio.risci2.net>, "Michel Polotto" <marella@wanadoo.nl>, > "Roy Nasser" > <roy@vem.ca>, php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] PHP Editor > > Let me tell you, my 30 year old operating system runs until 1) either the > electricity turns off or 2) I decide to upgrade the kernel. > > I would be no where near as efficient if I had to squiggle my damn mouse > around all day. Not to mention, restart my OS. > > There is nothing nearly as strong as regular expresions for text matching. I > suppose it is probably pretty easy do do something even as simple as take all > the white space out of the beggining of certain lines of a file. I less than > 5 seconds, I can do this: > :%s/^ *//g > > This is just an example. Tell me how you can even think of doing that in > windows -- or even if I can, why I would want to. > > Anyway, my point is that there are some things that were just done right a > long time ago. Wine (the drink) is that way. VI is that way. UNIX is that > way. They are all getting improvements -- for the better. Windows seems to > have taken a step in the opposite direction. I used to keep my DOS box > running for months at a time doing computations. I just read a study the > other day that says people have to reboot their windows systems 9 times a > week. By insulting my editor, you insult my whole POSIX operating system. > > :) Many of great code was and is created in VI and Emacs. These are the > editors of the scientific community. > > -jeremy brand > > --- "Sander Pilon" <sander@3dnews.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> I think us VI people and _you_ emacs :) people should agree that >>> getting people out of whatever the heck they are running on >>> Windows and into EITHER vi or emacs is a step in the right direction. >>> >>> :) >>> -jeremy brand >> >> If you think 30 years back in time is the right direction, sure. >> >> :) >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >> For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > == > _______________________________________________________________________ > GnuPG Fingerprint: 9F5E 95E0 1CC2 E054 84EA 6099 8ACD 9DBA D2C0 5EA9 > _ http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for > more __ > > _____________________________________________________________ > Get Your Own Private, Free E-mail Now! > your_name@smackdown.com http://www.smackdown.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <spacer> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net