Re: [9fans] Acme aborts on a pointless Edit command

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

The UNIX philosophy: if something doesn't work, fix it. The code is  
available and commented to a fault.

The DOS philosophy: if something doesn't work, get a new one or make  
one yourself. The program DEBUG is a wonderful place to start.

The GCC philosophy: make something do simple little tasks and put it  
together in a large program with a now-pointless acronym. Oh, and  
give no warranty, and link lots and lots of useless and complicated  
libraries, and spend hours finding bugs in a single configure file.

Choose one. Meanwhile, I'll be ed-ding /dev/sdC0/fossil to find all  
occurrences of the string "exits" and move them to where they are  
just to see ed blow up. (Seriously, you won't get far with ed-ding a  
partition - I tried).

On Dec 24, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote:

> On Dec 24, 2007 12:25 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>  
> wrote:
>> i'd be willing to give it a pass if it whined a bit, but aborting
>> on user input is a bit antisocial.
>
> "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to move lines
> around and back, doing nothing.  Call that job satisfaction, 'cause I
> don't.  Excuse me while I go and abort()."
>
> --Joel