[CS-FSLUG] Random comment on comment

[Aaron Patrick Lehmann]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 08:41:19AM -0500, Ed Hurst wrote:
> In each case, the selling point was that I was free to choose between 
> any combination of keysrokes, buttons, and menu entries, not to mention 
> all but Atlantis has a macro language, of varying degrees of difficulty. 
> I'm assuming each was developed in a modular way; the folks who coded 
> the backend simply left the "hooks" for functions and the GUI folks 
> extended them. Users really do demand a choice, because no two of us 
> work exactly alike. I don't care what's obvious to you, and you don't 
> care what's obvious to me. I'm sure there are whole careers built around 
> this nexus of conflict.

I can definitely see that.  Since no one extends upon the user interface, it
should follow the perl motto "There's more than one way to do it."  I merely
wrote my thing because I was unsure what "interface" meant... :-)

> 
> Of course, nowadays I don't use word processors much, because most of my 
> product is plain text or HTML. About the only thing I need for HTML is 
> syntax highlighting. Most of what I print out on paper is plain text, 
> using a dot-matrix, and I don't need WYSIWYG editing anymore. If 
> anything, I want a better plain text "word processor". Currently, I 
> don't know of any that I could run on my FreeBSD box.

vim is glorious.  And it has it's own fully-featured scripting language, and a
brilliant online help system.

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