[ale] Time for this Grey Beard to stir up some stuff

[Charles Shapiro]

Snrk. I got mentioned in this thread, so I guess I have to chime in.

I'm just a simple programmer, and I have the freedom to use the tools I
want.  I've got a fairly hirsute .emacsrc which gets installed in ${HOME}
everywhere I go.  I'm comfortable in vim and I use it, mostly to view files
rather than edit them.  Alas, I can never remember the right keystrokes for
real regex searching in emacs, so I often wind up editing a file in vim
when I need to do something semi-complicated. For _really_complex stuff,
emacs has a wonderful ad-hoc macro facility ( on my emacs it's <ctrl>X-(
and ctrl-X-) to create, and <ctrl-X-e to execute).  I know that vim has a
multi-window mode, but I've never really figured out how to use it
effectively. With emacs, OTOH, I am constantly opening and closing windows
to different parts of the file I'm editing and other files.

All in all this is basically baby goose stuff -- you tend to love the thing
you see first.  I still miss the Microsoft Macro Editor which shipped with
the Microsoft 8086 Assembler ("masm") in the late '80's.  That was my first
encounter with a truly full-featured editor.

-- CHS


On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:26 PM Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Solomon Peachy via Ale said on Thu, 27 May 2021 09:21:00 -0400
>
> >On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 08:52:51AM -0400, Jerald Sheets via Ale wrote:
> >> What exactly is happening to the discipline, and how can we “do
> >> better” as a discipline?
> >
> >The "solution" is make things crappier.  Seriously.
> >
> >You know as much as you do because you spent decades working on/with
> >stuff that would break if you looked at it sideways, and that's after
> >sacrificing untold quantities guatamelan poultry to get it going to
> >begin with.
>
> I got into Linux in 1998 and except for X and a few problematic wifi's,
> during the entirety of those two decades I don't remember stuff breaking
> or being at all brittle.
>
> Now X works beautifully, out of the box, with any Radeon. Those who use
> nVidia for vidio, well, they might be screwed.
>
> SteveT
>
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