Xah Lee's Unixism

jmfbahciv at aol.com jmfbahciv at aol.com
Thu Sep 2 07:50:48 EDT 2004


In article <%hmZc.17354$ni.569 at okepread01>,
   Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>jmfbahciv at aol.com wrote:
>
>> In article <aN2Zc.10226$QJ3.5466 at newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>,
>>    red floyd <no.spam at here.dude> wrote:
>> 
>>>CBFalconer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dump Notepad and get Textpad.  www.textpad.com.  First class.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Let the editor flame wars begin!
>>>
>>>Get gvim!  www.vim.org
>> 
>> 
>> You think notepad is an editor?  <snort>  You must be young
>> and inexperienced in the ways of Real Man's Editing sports.
>> 
>My choice? Definitely TECO, a real programmable editor from the TOPS10 
days.
>
>It would create a file if invoked by the "make" command. If you typed 
>"make love" it would respond with "...not war?" before beginning the edit.

Yup.  Definitely a side effect of a pony-tailed hippie protesting
the Nam war.

/BAH

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