Subj : Mail editor
To   : Martin Prieto
From : Dirk Cap
Date : Sun Jun 04 2000 03:27 pm

On (23 May 00) Martin Prieto wrote to Dirk Cap...

 MP>  DC>  to write shell scripts on a System V machine.
 MP> 
 MP> I can't even use vi myself, I know that :quit and :!quit are used to 
 MP> quit with and without saving. ;)

 :q and :q! to quit and quit without saving.

 MP>     Why don't you use VDE anyway? WordWrap is the least minimum of 
 MP> decence.

 This mail is written with VDE.

I am using this editor now as standard editor in the point  
software I am using now. I have try out different editors to 
manage texts. Even SPFPC (some weird mainframe cloned editor). But 
this was to difficult to manage. Some vi clone was good to use but 
using a simple editor makes my life simple and easy. I am a simple 
man you know.

 MP> Well in my full setup I have mcedit (Midnight Commander), joe, vi, ex 
 MP> (or Elvis) and a couple of others I barely uses.

It seems most linux users from the first our are using the 
standard command line editors instead of X stuff.
In most cases I like to use the X environment. This is maybe
I also like to use the Windows (or OS/2) environment.

MP> MP>     Slackware setup is divided in package, but you can 
choose what MP> programs you wan't to install from that package.

Yesterday I was in big trouble.
I was trying to reinstall a Linux system near other operating 
systems and due this inside a different partition of the disk. 
After the installation of the common software the setup sofrware 
was unable to install the LILO boot manager inside the /boot 
partition of my system. After booting with a floppy and manage 
manually the installation of LILO to the right partition everyting 
was all right. Strange it must be done manually by the root....

 MP> ... Crime doesn't pay... Does that mean my job is a crime?

Crime is good payed.
This is because there is so many crime....:-/


Dirk

.... I use the Enterprise computer to calculate my taxes

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 * Origin: Cap Dirk from Belgium (2:292/865.19)

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