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On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:32:46 -0700, sf wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:04:30 +0200, jack > wrote:
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>> And why brag about text editors? Because with a text editor one can edit
>> a configuration file sitting right at the machine, or over a shaky 2400
>> baud remote link. Try doing that with a 'word processor'.

>
> Somebody is still living in the dinosaur age.


Well, last time I checked, Jack was pretty agile for somebody from that
age. Besides, "vi" - as much as you'd like to "poo-poo" it (because it's
completely "text-based") is not too shabby either. As a matter of fact,
quite a bit of code for the current RFC site was written using vi...

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