> "Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> Then why keep bringing it up? I just find it amusing
Steve> that the selling point of a unix-like system is that it is
Steve> modular and flexible so the first thing most people point
Steve> to is a Microsoft-esque
Hello all there,
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Steve Lamb wrote:
> For me it isn't a GUI/CLI mindset it is simply the ability to do what
> needs to be done. Windows doesn't let me do that in most cases. The standard
> 'nix utilities provide a lot of automation for mundane tasks.
I've been following
Tuesday, May 02, 2000, 9:10:53 PM, Pat wrote:
> important and I don't see Windows 9x or NT giving this, although I have zero
> experience with NT. But I do know that to kill a runaway process in Win95
> you have to Ctrl-Alt-Delete, wait for the little window to pop up (forgot
> what it's called), a
Monday, May 01, 2000, 10:55:47 PM, Richard wrote:
> I've had several debates featuring this very subject.
> Some very long and drawn out and heated.
Then why keep bringing it up? I just find it amusing that the selling
point of a unix-like system is that it is modular and flexible so the firs
Hi,
"Richard Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Graeme Mathieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Re[2]:
> Emacs
>
> > Has anybody ever tried to graft emacs directly on top of oskit?
> > _Then_ you would have your operating system. :)
>
> It would be a great OS period. Perfect fo
Graeme Mathieson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Re[2]:
Emacs
> Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [ snipped ... ]
> > Simply stated, anything which requires Emacs to run
> > is instantly lower than something that requires Windows to run because
at
> > least it /IS/ an OS and not a
Hi,
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ snipped ... ]
> Simply stated, anything which requires Emacs to run
> is instantly lower than something that requires Windows to run because at
> least it /IS/ an OS and not an editor that is a wannabe script interpreter
> and OS rolled into one.
Has
Monday, May 01, 2000, 11:59:24 AM, Richard wrote:
> Emacs is far more useful than that... It's still the best
> mailer/newsreader/text based office program in existence.
That is highly debated, esp. for people who prefer not to have huge
bloated pigs in memory, don't want to learn a speech i
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