From: Thomas Hurst Date: 2002-02-19T00:51:44+09:00 Subject: Re: OT OmniWeb [was: Netscape 4.x?] * Sean Russell (ser@germane-software.com) wrote: > Thomas Hurst wrote: > [Dynamically linked /bin] > Bad news. I'm glad I've never encountered it. It sounds like an advisory > email to the worst offenders (Redhat? Mandrake?) is in order. Probably, but I'd rather keep it as a way to bash them ;) Plenty of people here use these dist's (that was a RedHat box I believe), they can do it, or they can switch to something good ;) [/Vim?/] > Until you get in the habit of keeping track of which mode you're in, > it is easy to make mistakes. That big-ass "-- INSERT --" is enough of a hint for me to keep track of modes as well as, if not better than keeping track of, say, where my mouse is. > If you're like me, you probably hit "ESC" a lot No, I rebound ESC to caps lock actually :) > when you don't need to while working in vi, just to make sure you're > in the right mode. By now, it is second nature, and I don't notice > that I do it. I don't hit escape much, actually, not in vim anyway. > Again, the caveat is that, by now, I love modes -- however, I try not > to confuse "what I like" with "what is correct, or best." Well, vi is aimed at console and keyboard use; there's not a whole lot of other ways you can squeeze all that power into an editor without either using emacs-style Ctrl-Meta-Alt-Delete-Backslash-A-B-Esc or Vim style :. User interface designers can spout off as much as they like about it, but until they come up with a more intuitive editor that keeps the power and speed, they're just spouting. > > Some syntax folding support would be nice though.. things like huge > > quantities of inline documentation are really destracting. > > I think they have it -- isn't it in the most current version of the > Ruby mode?? I seem to remember it being mentioned in a thread in this > group, somewhere. Yeah, but I'm lazy, and I don't usually write code I want to fold, so the cost of looking into it and installing it were greater than ignoring it and waiting for vim patchlevel 3,000 or Vim 6.1 ;) > Try the Project.vim script. I'll have a look. Think I grabbed it and forgot about it. > > Not really. There's nothing stopping someone who doesn't believe in > > God thinking the question is currently or ultimately unsolvable. > > Hmmm. One dictionary I have defines an agnostic as someone who, among > other things, neither affirms nor denies the existence of a personal > Deity. Being an atheist means that you deny the existence of God; > therefore, you can't also be an agnostic. http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/sn-definitions.html Being humans, there is nothing stopping us from holding different viewpoints about the same thing; I believe FreeBSD is better than Linux, but I also accept that Linux has advantages and may be better in some circumstances; I believe Ruby is better than PHP, but also accept that PHP may be faster and more appropriate in some circumstances; I believe God does not exist, but I also accept that there's not enough information to make that judgement entirely sound. > Or maybe you can. I've also heard the definition as one who believes > we can't know whether or not there is a supreme Deity. I guess in > this case, we can't know. Well, what I described (or meant, which may not be the same thing :) is kinda like the weak "default" position; lacking a belief in God and thinking there isn't enough information for any strong arguments either way. Lacking a belief in God isn't the same as believing God does not exist, but both fall under the term atheist.. I suppose atheist describes a position, and agnostic describes a reason :) Erm, anyway, I direct any further discussion to alt.atheist/atheism, where I won't see it, cos I really don't care ;) > > Don't worry, there are drugs available that can help restore your > > sense of humor ;) > > Oh, I have a healthy sense of humor. I just keep it in a closet, for > special occasions, and to scare small children. I tried that once. We didn't get any more trick or treater's for several years :) -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ - Don't I know you?