September 02, 2003
Why would anyone ever leave emacs?
There's even an aim client for it.. and as is with all emacs add ons (especially the pre-compiled ones) it takes about 2 minutes to setup and actually works...

That's provided you can remember your password (4 tries).

In other news: I seem to be really bad at drawing little, black rectangles in gimp. Hmm. Who knew.

The other black rectangle is Matt. He's shy.

Posted September 02, 2003 10:00 PM in Geek Stuff
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Comments
On September 2, 2003 10:54 PM fluffy added:

Little black rectangles made easy:

1. press R
2. Select the region you want to obscure
3. press shift-B
4. click pretty much anywhere

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On September 3, 2003 07:12 AM Gordon added:

I am a German, but I don't know the word 'Zapfloch'. ;)

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On September 3, 2003 08:03 AM Derek added:

I had a former boss who, for a while, had emacs as his login shell. Worked out pretty well for him, actually.

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On September 3, 2003 10:45 AM rw added:

Zapfloch is the thing you have in a Bierfass ;)

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On September 3, 2003 01:38 PM Matt added:

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/GermanEnglish/dict.cgi?query=Zapfloch+&max=50

I don't speak German, I just plug funny phrases into babelfish.

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On September 3, 2003 02:42 PM Dan Isaacs added:

I could see leaving it if you had an affinity for beeps.

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On September 3, 2003 05:18 PM Techie2000 added:

Because Vim is clearly superior...:-P

*starts running really fast*

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On September 4, 2003 12:46 AM kasia added:

Dan, you're confusing emacs and vi.. it's vi that has the two mods.. "beep" and "insert".

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On September 4, 2003 10:44 AM Dan Isaacs added:

Yeah. That is why you'd leave emacs, to use vi, because you liked beeps.

I use *cough*pico*cough*, so I'm really not qualified to comment on this at all.

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On September 11, 2003 01:29 PM Jeremy added:

Classic bloat... ;)

Long live pico and nano!

:)

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On November 17, 2003 04:58 PM Jessy added:

Pico is good enough to meet my needs and light enough to fit on a diskette. Awesome

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