[OT] Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-09 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Brian Nelson, > Did I miss any? My personal favourite is Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists. cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-08 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:39:30PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > > Well, damn, let's just throw them all out there: > > > > Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping > [...] > > Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos > > > > Did I miss any? > > Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conc

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:39:30PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: > Well, damn, let's just throw them all out there: > > Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping [...] > Emacs Makers Are Crazy Sickos > > Did I miss any? Gracious, no: u've eliminated most all conceivable selections. Rob -- Old pr

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:30:28PM +0200, Casper Gielen wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:57:29PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > > > well then... let me through this last one out: > > > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping > > Sorry, can't resist: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Well

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread Casper Gielen
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 02:57:29PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > well then... let me through this last one out: > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Sorry, can't resist: Escape Meta Alt Control Shift -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- People just gen

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:36:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > well then... let me through this last one out: > > > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping > > Yeah. That was a problem when we had 16MB of RAM on typical > machines. With 512MB of RAM, I don't care so much

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
MaD dUCK wrote: > well then... let me through this last one out: > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Yeah. That was a problem when we had 16MB of RAM on typical machines. With 512MB of RAM, I don't care so much anymore!

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Mon, 07 May 2001 12:01:30PM -0500): > hey, i just found out (foldoc/jargon dict) that emacs evolved > from (removing hat from head) Teco, so we may be soon taking > exceptions to emacs-dissing... :) well then... let me through this last one out: (E)ight (M)egabytes (

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread will trillich
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 01:20:14AM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > (waiting for emacs users to join in: you can do all of this and next > month's laundry with a key-combo that will only cause you to put three > knots in your fingers while reaching through your legs to touch the > back of your head - that'

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Karsten M. Self (on Sun, 06 May 2001 10:10:56PM -0700): > > set nowrap > > set nolinebreak > > set textwidth=0 > > set wrapmargin=10 > > set textwidth=72 don't ask me why, i tried both and for whatever reason ended up prefering the way i chose. but hey, don't know why i had > > set w

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Mon, 07 May 2001 12:03:32AM -0500): > official schmofficial. hehe. > ap "a paragraph", select [count] paragraphs (see > ip "inner paragraph", select [count] paragraphs > (see ah. learn new things day in, day out