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That was fun!
Best LOL lines:
1) "2 words: org mode. I use to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now I use org mode latex and just accept that it's impossible."
2) "Yeah I fought in the Vim Emacs Wars."
3) - "Interviewer: I think Vim has quite a nice tutorial." - "Enthusiast: I don't remember." - "Interviewer: Remember what?" - "Enthusiast: I don't remember asking for your opinion."
4) "You want my Emacs configuration? Look, this is a life of work - one does not simply share his Emacs configuration."
My favourite: parentheses paralysis
I spend all my time in my Vedit text editor. Advantages:
1. Discontinued. No further money to be spent on upgrades. 2. Storage efficiency. A byte is a byte is a byte. No UTF-8 (or similar), so a character is a byte is a byte. 3. 32-bit app. Runs on way more hardware than those restrictive 64-bit apps. 4. Installed version is totally portable. Run from USB stick, anywhere.
Oh, when I'm not in Vedit, I'm in my accounting software, written in Visual FoxPro 9 (final version). Advantages:
1. Discontinued. No further money to be spent on upgrades. 2. Flexible. I keep programming upgrades into it as the need arises. 3. Uses .DBF files. So data is always recoverable through a real text editor. 4. 32-bit app. Runs on way more hardware than those restrictive 64-bit apps. 5. Unintelligible to accountants (and to everyone else too). So, I can never be audited. Take that, CRA! 6. No user interface. So, nobody else can ever operate it.
Oh, when I'm not using the above 2 items, I'm in ZTree, my file manager. Advantages:
1. More-or-less discontinued. No further money to be spent on upgrades. 2. Installed version is totally portable. Run from USB stick, anywhere.
That's my off-the-cuff contribution to this humour thread.
Hartmut
On Mon 21 Aug 2023 at 14:07:56 -05:00, Bradford C. Vokey brad@fsi.ca wrote:
That was fun!
Best LOL lines:
"2 words: org mode. I use to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now I use org mode latex and just accept that it's impossible."
"Yeah I fought in the Vim Emacs Wars."
- "Interviewer: I think Vim has quite a nice tutorial."
- "Enthusiast: I don't remember."
- "Interviewer: Remember what?"
- "Enthusiast: I don't remember asking for your opinion."
- "You want my Emacs configuration? Look, this is a life of work - one does not simply share his Emacs configuration."
-- Bradford C. Vokey
Treasurer Manitoba Unix User Group
On 2023-08-21 9:49 a.m., Adam Thompson wrote:
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Ah there's more... https://youtu.be/9n1dtmzqnCU
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My favourite: parentheses paralysis
I spend all my time in my Vedit text editor. Advantages:
1. Discontinued. No further money to be spent on upgrades. 2. Storage efficiency. A byte is a byte is a byte. No UTF-8 (or similar), so a character is a byte is a byte. 3. 32-bit app. Runs on way more hardware than those restrictive 64-bit apps. 4. Installed version is totally portable. Run from USB stick, anywhere.
Oh, when I'm not in Vedit, I'm in my accounting software, written in Visual FoxPro 9 (final version). Advantages:
1. Discontinued. No further money to be spent on upgrades. 2. Flexible. I keep programming upgrades into it as the need arises. 3. Uses .DBF files. So data is always recoverable through a real text editor. 4. 32-bit app. Runs on way more hardware than those restrictive 64-bit apps. 5. Unintelligible to accountants (and to everyone else too). So, I can never be audited. Take that, CRA! 6. No user interface. So, nobody else can ever operate it.
Oh, when I'm not using the above 2 items, I'm in ZTree, my file manager. Advantages:
1. More-or-less discontinued. No further money to be spent on upgrades. 2. Installed version is totally portable. Run from USB stick, anywhere.
That's my off-the-cuff contribution to this humour thread.
Hartmut
On Mon 21 Aug 2023 at 14:07:56 -05:00, Bradford C. Vokey <brad@fsi.camailto:brad@fsi.ca> wrote:
That was fun!
Best LOL lines:
1) "2 words: org mode. I use to spend hours trying to get the image on the right page. Now I use org mode latex and just accept that it's impossible."
2) "Yeah I fought in the Vim Emacs Wars."
3) - "Interviewer: I think Vim has quite a nice tutorial." - "Enthusiast: I don't remember." - "Interviewer: Remember what?" - "Enthusiast: I don't remember asking for your opinion."
4) "You want my Emacs configuration? Look, this is a life of work - one does not simply share his Emacs configuration."
-- Bradford C. Vokey
Treasurer Manitoba Unix User Group
On 2023-08-21 9:49 a.m., Adam Thompson wrote: https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc
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On 2023-08-21 Adam Thompson wrote:
OMG I almost had a heart attack I was laughing so much. That's some seriously good work, and for such a narrow, tiny potential audience!
It makes me want to haul out the Learning EMACS book and give it another go! Dude was right about the billions of years thing.
On 2023-08-21 Bradford C. Vokey wrote:
- "You want my Emacs configuration? Look, this is a life of work -
one does not simply share his Emacs configuration."
^H^H^H^H tcsh configuration
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