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From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] problem with acme on 9front
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 11:16:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160521181611.GA68621@wopr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94da399e3d511fd1c3eba711ce9692e0@lilly.quanstro.net>

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 10:36:44AM -0700, erik quanstrom wrote:
> > This is tantamount to saying acme is superior because you are better at
> > acme.  [...]
>
> c'mon man.  you follow this with several paragraphs of opinion which appear
> to say that acme is not better because you don't like it.

Yes, having explicitly set the dimensions of the field, I proceeded to
stay in bounds.

> but then again, editors don't tend to lead to logical arguments.  :-)

I've never seen it happen, and I don't really expect to.  I do maintain
that calling acme an editor is akin to calling New York a shopping
center.

khm



  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-21 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-19 18:30 christophe DAMAS
2016-05-19 18:40 ` Siarhei Zirukin
2016-05-19 19:42   ` Charles Forsyth
2016-05-19 21:51     ` Kurt H Maier
2016-05-20  0:37       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-05-20  1:23         ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2016-05-20  1:32           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-05-20  2:02             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2016-05-20  2:07               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-05-20 11:58                 ` hiro
2016-05-20 12:07                   ` Mark van Atten
2016-05-20 15:49                     ` Wes Kussmaul
2016-05-20 12:12                   ` Brantley Coile
2016-05-20 20:01                 ` Steve Simon
2016-05-21 21:52                   ` Mark Lee Smith
2016-05-21 23:18                     ` erik quanstrom
2016-05-22  7:36                     ` Siarhei Zirukin
2016-05-22 17:28                       ` Mark Lee Smith
2016-05-21 17:36       ` erik quanstrom
2016-05-21 18:16         ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2016-05-21 18:28           ` Rob Pike
2016-05-21 19:21             ` Kurt H Maier
2016-05-21 23:14           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-05-19 18:41 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-05-19 19:20   ` Mark Lee Smith
2016-05-19 19:36     ` cinap_lenrek
2016-05-19 20:26       ` Mark Lee Smith
2016-05-19 20:37         ` Lee Fallat
2016-05-19 20:40         ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2016-05-19 20:11     ` stanley lieber
2016-05-19 20:15       ` Charles Forsyth
2016-05-19 20:53         ` stanley lieber
2016-05-19 21:13           ` Mark van Atten
2016-05-19 21:18             ` Lee Fallat
2016-05-21 19:08               ` Mark van Atten
2016-05-21 19:23 trebol55555

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