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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:14051 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3838 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD) Date: 27 Oct 1994 20:26:56 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 32 Message-ID: <38p2eg$kde@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <358o3g$p95@umd5.umd.edu> <38hk8s$dn2@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <38k228$ksm@henri.mindspring.com> <38kvfu$b1f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <CyA7p4.2Lt@bonkers.taronga.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <38kvfu$b1f@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, >Rafal Boni <rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote: >> If I didn't find the EMACS keybindings so g*d*** confusing, I'd give >> up VI in a minute for all those nifty things like compiling and >> having errors show up right in the editor window. Anyone have a VI >> mode for EMACS? >There's this nifty program out there called "error" that inserts error >messages back in the source as comments. Ah, I'll have to ask archie about this... >> [Note: I started out hacking on a DOS box and got way too attached to >> Brief.... >I like brief. I hear they castrated it by replacing the nifty lisp-like >extension language with an algorithmic one. Yeah, that is unfortunately true... However I'm still way too tied in to even the simple built-in stuff [like tolower/toupper], the way you can split your windows in 8,000,001 ways, the compiler support, and even the goofy state-saving thing I used to hate so much at one point. >Wow. Two niftys in one message. A sure sign of a crazed mind. "There's no such thing as sanity, and that's the sanest fact..". You said it, not me 8-) --rafal