> > > Bob Drzyzgula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > and I can assure you that it didn't have no stinkin' Emacs; > >> > >> It most certainly did, you simply didn't install it. :) > > > > Absolutely SunOS 1.1 did not include any version of Emacs. > > No, it didn't *include* it. As I said, we got gosmacs from > Unipress. The environment I was at bought it because they had so many > Dec-20 heads that they needed it. I'm sorry if I was ambiguous on > that. > > > -- > Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
I dabbled with Linux as an enthusiast as a wee lad back in the 80386 days. Took a C in the Unix environment class at college back in the late 1990s and the instructor taught vi since "There's always vi - but maybe not something else - you can read chapter 11 [of the Sobell text we were using - the emacs chapter - going from memory so chapter number may be wrong] on your own if you're interested." I briefly played a little with emacs on my own but having no compelling reason to use it didn't get very far. Right now I use kate for most user level editing and vi for most root editing or editing over ssh. I also try to remember to use a sed script (I even modified the one that came with the O'Reilly book to span directories semi-recursively!) for making minor changes to bunches of input files all at once. Sometimes (for n < 10 or so) this just gets done manually though. I will agree [with rgb?] that OpenOffice takes a hideously long time to load, but, in fairness, this is, to an extent, an apples and oranges comparison. Kind of like using bash for a quick arithmetic calculation vs. firing up Mathematica or a similar program. Having said all this, I'm not a programmer by any stretch. The best units for measuring my coding productivity is projects / decade. I do tend to try the gui admin tools before going to the text files, though /etc/hosts and /etc/fstab are pretty common to at least read when something gets broken. In fact, I do so little programming that it has been a year since I've compiled anything - running into some issues with a bunch of upgrades - if by two weekends from now I don't even have a serial CPMD 3.13.1 running I'm going to break down and seek help from the appropriate lists. Want to wrestle with it a little more - I feel very, very close. Mark Kosmowski _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
