[brlug-general] Faster than gedit

[Petri Laihonen]

Dude! Where's my laptop?

I need to google for a top speed of a fully grown male ostrich.

Petri

John Hebert wrote:
> Vi is a very mysterious and powerful editor and its mystery is exceeded only by its power.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Joe Fruchey <ignavia at gmail.com>
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Friday, February 2, 2007 9:57:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Faster than gedit
>
> Thank you, Michael. All the uber*-geeks are so condescending unless
> you live in vi, or to a lesser extent, emacs. I'm reading O'Reilly's
> _Fedora_Linux_ right now, and it has an entire chapter (okay, maybe
> just a big section of one) devoted to vi. I'm thinking, /who wants to
> learn vi?/
>
> Joe
>
> *My u would have an umlaut if someone could give me back my alt-codes
> in Linux...
>
> On 2/2/07, michael dolan <michaeldolan at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I use gedit mostly now, but it is annoyingly slow.  I used to use nano (got
>> into that habit taking LSU CS classes).  I never got into the habit of using
>> vi or emacs.  I don't know why, it's always been in the back of my mind.
>> MD.
>>
>>
>> On 2/2/07, Dustin Puryear < dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> It's been a long time since I used Linux as a desktop, so I'm rather
>>> behind the curve on that. Ronnie or Mike may have an idea. That said,
>>> isn't there an nedit for Linux? Wasn't it fast?
>>>
>>> ---
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Friday, February 2, 2007, 9:10:00 AM, you wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> okay, okay, you got me.
>>>>         
>>>> Howabout a gui editor? I never could get into vi, or even emacs. nano
>>>> -icKx for me.
>>>>         
>>>> On 2/2/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> drum roll..
>>>>>
>>>>> vi
>>>>>
>>>>> Ha, I got there first.
>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
>>>>> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
>>>>> http://www.puryear-it.com
>>>>>
>>>>> Author:
>>>>>   "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>>>>>   "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century"
>>>>>
>>>>> Download your free copies:
>>>>>   http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Friday, February 2, 2007, 8:54:41 AM, you wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Notepad has always launched almost instantly on Windows machines.
>>>>>> There's got to be something faster (albeit simpler) than gedit,
>>>>>>             
>> right?
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