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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: User Interface
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:04:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e701c125ac$682a2680$3cf7c6d4@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B792FAF.39BEBB61@null.net>

From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
> I don't know what you expect in a text editor, but I've used many
> and "sam" is the one I prefer for almost every editing task.

first thing i do when i get to the new job -- sam.

> > Why is it that such a simple task as editing the contents of a textfile
> > must cause so much pain? At least some of you must have seen notepad.exe
> > at work during your lifetime? It cant do much, but it gets the job done
> > in a simple way!

really CR/LF?  get real.

> Most people read the instructions.
> I guess in your case, you could throw the laptop against a wall.

9mm is a lot more fun, but a bit more serious:

    http://home.fr.inter.net/boyd/banks/hsbc

well, they did say 'cut it into little pieces' ...




  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-15 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-14  9:46 [9fans] " Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-14 13:15 ` John Murdie
2001-08-14 14:11   ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-14 16:37 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-15 17:04   ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-08-15 13:23 ` [9fans] " William K. Josephson
2001-08-16 21:04 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-24 13:45 [9fans] " rob pike
2001-08-24 14:19 ` Dan Cross
2001-08-24 13:54 bwc
2001-08-24 14:52 ` Dan Cross
2001-08-24 18:30 David Gordon Hogan

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