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Why this? Yet Another vi-based Editor?
Poizon writes "The guys from freehackers.org have begun developing yet another vi-like editor, called Yzis (speak: "Why this?"). Their primary goal is to seperate the text processing engine and the GUI, in order to be able to integrate it into window managers like KDE as a native component. They have previously worked on KVim, a Vim port to KDE, so chances are good that they will succeed with Yzis. Sounds interesting, doesn't it?"
Yes, but the whole world would probably be happy if their computer was as simple to use as their TV, if their cars could drive themselves, and if all food came prepackaged and ready-to-eat.
But then there's us, the mechanics, the cooks, and yes, the computer geeks who demand a whole lot more from our tools. And something as simple as notepad.exe sure as hell aint enough for us.
Sorry if manual transmissions and charcoal bbq's are "out-of-date", but you can do a lot more and have a lot more fun with them. Same with Vim, and vi motion keys.
Of course, cars seem to be going towards alphabet soup in their naming (I swear there's a model with the suffix MFC). I'd say that there's no more market tested and carefully chosen names than car model names. The Chevy Nova notwithstanding. :) Maybe people are starting to like esoteric combinations of characters.
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Evan
"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
I don't think these guys are targetting the Word Processor market. There are several of those already.
VI is a powerful text editor. I would love to see it embedded in more documents, if only that I can seemly switch between VI the text editor, and use my VI commands in this Slashdot webform, and then hop on over to Evolution to type up a quick email.
After a while, you have the need search the documents for all occurances of a pattern that begins with "http://www.", "https://www" or "ftp://ftp", a common string in the middle, and a variety of filenames in the end. Each line needs to be turned from a plain text string into an HTML hyperlink.
BTW, you need to replace 65% of these, not 100%, so you might want to confirm each change.
And by the way, you need to make this change on 50 files.
You can do that in VI, and it's actually suprisingly easy once you go through the learning curve.
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I desperately would like to see the integration of multimode text editors into more GUIs. Right now there is a usability ceiling built into GUIs. They're designed for beginning and intermediate users with no advanced user features. The productivity jump I gained from moving from a standard text editor to vi was profound. Now I'm forced to dumb it down in GUIs.
Michael.
Linux : Mac
Command mode being the default will confuse average users to death. Text boxes should clearly be emacs...
So, just make insert mode default and 95% of users will never notice anything, but if you make emacs the default you'll end up with a browser within the editor within the browser. I know that browsers have been touted as an alternative to operating systems but let's not make that alternative OS emacs.
But most geeks don't find out about these projects from conversations. They find out about them by reading about them online somewhere, in email, etc. They don't need to ask for the spelling because they have it right there and can copy it to google or wherever. It's not impaired advertising, it's advertising that has adapted to its market. If something isn't going to be advertised on tv and radio, but will instead be discovered through a text medium (web, email, chat), then it is not mainly concerned with the things you discuss. Frankly, this name does happen to be pretty stupid, though.
As for why Gnome should have a hard G (I didn't actually know this; anyone I've known who used gnome didn't pronounce the G), the answer is presumably because it is a play on Gnu, which has the G pronounced the same way.
I'd rather be lucky than good.
I get annoyed by the recursive names - it's been done to death. It was interesting the first time, cute the second time; the third time it was annoying, and the fourth - well, I apologize to all the small children and dogs of the world.
To celebrate the occasion of my 1000th post, I will post no more forever on Slashdot. Goodbye.
This is why sites like slashdot get less respect than they should. "Seperate" is not a word. Come on, editors, is there something non-open-sourcey or Microsofty about a quick spell check before posting an item?
Syntax error: loose != lose, affect != effect, then!=than