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[ILUG] colored vim...

[ILUG] colored vim...

Kenn Humborg kenn at bluetree.ie
Fri Nov 26 17:33:41 GMT 1999


> What about TPU ??????? ;-)

That's for wusses!

Mel wrote:
> EDT? That wouldn't be like ed on VMS by any chance would it. If it is, EDT
> has to be one of the most evil creation on earth. I got out of Vi the
> first time eventually. It took an hour to convince ed it would be a good
> idea to write a line. 

Yup, that's the one.  Once you get into change mode, everything's
much smoother...

If Teco is anything like it, it can die too :-))))))

Oh no, TECO is nothing like it.  (Trivia, apparently RMS wrote the
first version of emacs using TECO.)  It has been said that TECO
macro strings are indistinguishable from line noise.  Check out
   http://x39.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=543484157&CONTEXT=943637342.1183449095&hitnum=25

and a followup:
   http://x39.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=544652848&CONTEXT=943637342.1183449095&hitnum=13

Eek!

Later,
Kenn







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