[TUHS] Unix taste (Re: terminal - just for fun)

[iking@killthewabbit.org (Ian King)]

On Aug 2, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
> Does something like Word produce the same reaction for you? I don't  
> use it
> much, but my wife does (she's an engineer, and uses it to write  
> papers), and
> its complexity drives her crazy sometimes.
>

After writing my general exam in MS-Word,  I swore off it unless  
forced to use it (i.e. collaborative requirements).  When a stupid  
but ambitious application program thinks it's smarter than you are  
and tries to 'correct' your writing (I now call it 'autocorrupt'),  
it's time to change.  These days I write in EMACS and format with  
LaTeX, printing in PDF.  I can't imagine writing my dissertation with  
the turd called Word.

Unfortunately, I have to keep MS-Worst on the family computer,  
because the public schools require parents to purchase for-profit  
software to support our children's education.  (There are too many  
incompatibilities with Open Office et al. that trip up my less- 
computer-savvy family members for the open-source tools to be a  
useful alternative in an compulsory MS world.)  Fortunately, I get it  
for free through *my* school.

For programming, I used to use exclusively vi, but tried EMACS out of  
curiosity and found its UI to be a less constrained than vi's modal  
approach.  I use Gnu, FWIW.  -- Ian

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