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 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. |
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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
Posted by: fluffy | September 2, 2003 10:54 PM
I am a German, but I don't know the word 'Zapfloch'. ;)
Posted by: Gordon | September 3, 2003 07:12 AM
I had a former boss who, for a while, had emacs as his login shell. Worked out pretty well for him, actually.
Posted by: Derek | September 3, 2003 08:03 AM
Zapfloch is the thing you have in a Bierfass ;)
Posted by: rw | September 3, 2003 10:45 AM
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/GermanEnglish/dict.cgi?query=Zapfloch+&max=50
I don't speak German, I just plug funny phrases into babelfish.
Posted by: Matt | September 3, 2003 01:38 PM
I could see leaving it if you had an affinity for beeps.
Posted by: Dan Isaacs | September 3, 2003 02:42 PM
Because Vim is clearly superior...:-P
*starts running really fast*
Posted by: Techie2000 | September 3, 2003 05:18 PM
Dan, you're confusing emacs and vi.. it's vi that has the two mods.. "beep" and "insert".
Posted by: kasia | September 4, 2003 12:46 AM
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.
Posted by: Dan Isaacs | September 4, 2003 10:44 AM
Classic bloat... ;)
Long live pico and nano!
:)
Posted by: Jeremy | September 11, 2003 01:29 PM
Pico is good enough to meet my needs and light enough to fit on a diskette. Awesome
Posted by: Jessy | November 17, 2003 04:58 PM