[plug]

[tlee]

Yes thanks for that Greg - I did have a feint idea that what you say would be the
case, as one would hardly go for linux if one wanted to have an easy life.
Usually the hardest way works out to be the quickest way - rather like a mechanic
in engine of your car. He does not walk around to the seat to start the engine -
simply shorts out the starter motor and the engine bursts into life. Vi and Emacs
will accomplish tasks without the added comlication of a word processor editor.
But I don't suppose they are much good for word processing and the like? What
say?

The Thought Assassin wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, tlee wrote:
> > I am a newbie and have been suffering with Slackware, but not using Xfree I
> > also found joe to be the easiest editor.
> Good to hear, shame it doesn't seem to linewrap.
> FORGET I SAID THAT. :)
>
> > I thought that all of you would be using Staroffice editor
> The Staroffice suite has a word processor, not a text editor. Far to big
> an unwieldly and insufficiently WISIWIM for quickly editting a small ASCII
> file with precision.
>
> > which I assumed would be similar to ms office word
> Exactly. :)
>
> > Why all the talk about an editor?
> Goes with the territory. Programmers and sysadmins spent a great deal of
> their time editing smallish ASCII files with precision and in a hurry.
> They come to care about editors. Unfortunately, some of them come to care
> about the wrong editor, but I won't go into that. :)
>
> Linux users have quite a tendency to be programmers and sysadmins (at
> least compared to the average Windows type) for a number of reasons:
> A) GNU/Linux allows you to administer your system.
> B) GNU/Linux occassionally forces you to administer your system.
> C) GNU/Linux allows you to program it a lot.
> D) GNU/Linux is an environment in which you will enjoy programming a lot.
> E) Linux users tend to be technically competent, and hence get forced to
>    do sysadmin work by the incompetents around them.
> F) Programmers and sysadmins are knowledgeable and experienced enough to
>    make a wise choice of operating system. :)
>
> I hope you are at least as much informed as you are disturbed by this. :)
>
> -Greg Mildenhall