On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:07 PM, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Leimbach<leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Eric and myself, and I think maybe Ron, are using acme and acme-sac to
> >> > interact with a BlueGene/P system.
> >>
> >> Not as glamorous, but an alternative senario - I use sam and rio
> >> to write embedded and windows code.
> >>
> >> I edit the code with sam, but I do my best not to ever access
> >> the seperate rio snarf buffer.
> >>
> >> I keep the commands or scripts I need to test the code in rio's
> >> snarf, when I am ready to try things I just click the rio window
> >> and Button 2 to execute send.
> >>
> >> -Steve
> >
> > I use plan 9 port acme fairly regularly, when I get tired of weird
> Emacsisms
> > that get in my way rather than helping me.
>
> Emacs is great for writing Lisp. Now, if only I could find the correct
> .emacs invocation to make the tab key insert a tab character in C
> mode, rather than a bunch of spaces the way His Holy Lunacy RMS
> desires. If I wanted spaces instead of tabs, I'd type them!



And yet since every damned editor interprets a tab differently, I'd almost
with the tab key away completely :-)

I guess we just make everyone use Acme and move on :-).

Dave

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