[ale] notepad

[Geoffrey]

Adrin wrote:

> LOL
> When I first started learning Unix. I had to access files for editing
> through telnet. This is when
> I learned vi.  I thought it was so nice to. Because I had used edlin in
> MSDOS before.  I good moral to the story though. Is to learn vi.  It is
> always there.  Well 99.9% of the time?


Yeah, back when we were running 3b2s with 4 meg of memory, we used to 
joke that EMACS stood for 'Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.'  Funny 
that joke just doesn't carry the weight it once did....


> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Nagorski [mailto:kenn at refriedgeek.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:36 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] notepad
> 
> 
> Use vi or die!
> 
> Just kidding, but I think you are about to start a holy war!
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
>>i like windows notepad basic look and feel... anything
>>that looks identical in linux? vi is nice but its not
>>great
>>
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