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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
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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