Xah Lee's Unixism

John Thingstad john.thingstad at chello.no
Thu Sep 2 10:58:15 EDT 2004


On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:51:27 GMT, <joe at invalid.address> wrote:

> jmfbahciv at aol.com writes:
>
>> In article <m3vfeyc6mn.fsf at invalid.address>, joe at invalid.address wrote:
>> >Steve Holden <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes:
>> >
>> >> 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!
>> >> >>
>> >> >>G   etgvim!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.
>> >
>> >But can it quote Zippy the Pinhead?
>>
>> Who?
>
> http://www.zippythepinhead.com/
>
> If you're runnning emacs, you can get a quote from him with M-X yow
>
> Not exactly a typical editor function, agreed. I was feeling a little
> whimsical at the time.
>
> Joe

altso try psykoanalize-pinhead ;)

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