Will word wrap make an appearance in Eclipse anytime soon? I've heard that it would require a core rewrite of Eclipse in order to implement it...anyone know otherwise?
My co-workers keep trying to push Eclipse on me, but with such a simple feature as word wrap missing, I've just got to stick with jEdit.
Is this feature in Eclipse, and he's just missed it somewhere? I mean, c'mon: what text editor doesn't have word wrap? (Not that Eclipse is a plain ol' text editor, I didn't mean any offense to the Eclipse hot-heads.;-)
I used ZipZoomFly almost exclusively to build my PC this summer. There's free two day FedEx shipping on tons of stuff, and their prices always seem to be very near or at the top of the list of best-price vendors.
I've never had to return anything to them, so I can't comment there, but do at least check them out next time you're buying PC gear.
Heh, I remember the PET! The only thing I recall doing on it, though, is playing some sort of (educational, I assume) game where your character climbed up the ladder on a diving board, and jumped off when you met the goal...
Sounds kind of lame. (The game, not the PET.):-)
Didn't the PET have a cassette player built-in near the keyboard?
One potential problem (note: this is anecdotal) is games may have reinforced a very competitive personality.
I don't know that this is as anecdotal as you might think. I, too, have this problem, mostly shortly after playing Metropolis Street Racer/Project Gotham Racing.;-) Something about winning races there just makes you want to jump in the car and hit the streets with your chums.
But when you get in the car, you come to the realization that it's a 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier Wagon, 4 cylinder, and the feeling kind of fades somewhat.:-)
but also, that your perception of how close is too close goes WAAAAY down
I can TOTALLY relate, and I'm gonna use that as my new explanation when the wife complains that I follow other cars too closely/am driving too close to the center line/drive too fast.
'Cause I figure as long as no one's getting hurt or put in real danger, it's all good.;-)
It's written in Java, but it's still fast, and you can run it on all the platforms you might have at home or work. You can also very easily emulate most of the features you mentioned: tabbed documents, file management, syntax highlighting, etc. Plus, it is very extensible with macros, reconfigurable key shortcuts, plug-ins, etc. Try it!
One time, while we were living in Kent, someone busted out the passenger side lock on our car to get inside to steal stuff. Their haul? Two 24-packs of soda. Sprite and Coke, I think.
What? They were expecting us to keep gold bars in the trunk of a Cavalier? C'mon. There was nothing visible inside the car.
Is this story in any way related to this Segway theft? Maybe not so much. But I was just happy to see Kent, WA mentioned in the news.:-)
They make pinwheels there, too, down in the valley.
Hey, did those older computers with "Turbo" switches actually DO anything? And if so, why wouldn't you want your computer to be running as fast as possible anyway?
The Turbo button always kinda frustrated me, but it made a light go on and off, so the entertainment from that negated the frustration.:-)
And I'm sure even brick layers have something they're overly anal about that we as non-brick-laying folk never notice and could care less about. Is the mortar of an exact depth around every brick? No? Tear it down and start over, and for godsakes, make sure the mortar is always the same thickness! The tenants would rather have evenly-spaced bricks than a place to live!
What ever happened to content being king? Let's see, I could spend my entire work week worrying about and tweaking graphics that are only by sheer chance going to look exactly the same on any two computers and completely ignoring the fact that I have no content. Or, I could put those same 40+ hours into generating useful content for my web site and creating 216 color graphics simply accepting the fact that no matter what I do, I won't be able to make the site look the same to everyone all of the time, but it will look acceptable to most people most of the time.
Consider the adolescent surfing or watching scrambled cable channels for prOn. Millions of colors, 216 colors, 4 colors, B&W dither; crystal-clear reception, wavy scrambled picture with audio, wavy without audio, audio only. It doesn't matter at that point, all they want is the content. It all boils down to content, folks, both pictures and non-pictures.
(And don't tsk, tsk me for the prOn bit...you know you've done it, too.:-)
There's too much BS you have to wade through on the designer side, and this whole color palette issue is just one little pile in the heap. (Clients looking for a seventh round of revisions is another pile.) That's why I switched back over to the development side. They can argue over the colors looking right, while I just make the damn thing work.
I was in there several years ago, and I couldn't get a Dinosaur Jr. CD because they "don't carry that kind of music." Whew! Good thing they saved me from that!
I was also in there a few years later with my wife (then gf) and she gave me a quick kiss by the CDs. Some older female associate saw it and asked us, "Please don't do that here...there are children around." Apparently, kiss = prOn at Walmart...
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I guess if he's spelling in the style of Gollum, and all of his references to "tricksy" Hobbitses, he'd be spot on. :-D
Will word wrap make an appearance in Eclipse anytime soon? I've heard that it would require a core rewrite of Eclipse in order to implement it...anyone know otherwise?
;-)
My co-workers keep trying to push Eclipse on me, but with such a simple feature as word wrap missing, I've just got to stick with jEdit.
Is this feature in Eclipse, and he's just missed it somewhere? I mean, c'mon: what text editor doesn't have word wrap? (Not that Eclipse is a plain ol' text editor, I didn't mean any offense to the Eclipse hot-heads.
I used ZipZoomFly almost exclusively to build my PC this summer. There's free two day FedEx shipping on tons of stuff, and their prices always seem to be very near or at the top of the list of best-price vendors.
I've never had to return anything to them, so I can't comment there, but do at least check them out next time you're buying PC gear.
Ligatures rule!
Right around the corner from my old jerb
Wouldn't that be your old jorb?
Or Drakkhen. :-)
Man, that game sucked.
Heh, I remember the PET! The only thing I recall doing on it, though, is playing some sort of (educational, I assume) game where your character climbed up the ladder on a diving board, and jumped off when you met the goal...
:-)
Sounds kind of lame. (The game, not the PET.)
Didn't the PET have a cassette player built-in near the keyboard?
Um, I don't think that is true...I just upgraded from Photoshop 5.5 to 7 directly from Adobe.
YMMV, of course.
One potential problem (note: this is anecdotal) is games may have reinforced a very competitive personality.
;-) Something about winning races there just makes you want to jump in the car and hit the streets with your chums.
:-)
I don't know that this is as anecdotal as you might think. I, too, have this problem, mostly shortly after playing Metropolis Street Racer/Project Gotham Racing.
But when you get in the car, you come to the realization that it's a 1994 Chevrolet Cavalier Wagon, 4 cylinder, and the feeling kind of fades somewhat.
but also, that your perception of how close is too close goes WAAAAY down
;-)
I can TOTALLY relate, and I'm gonna use that as my new explanation when the wife complains that I follow other cars too closely/am driving too close to the center line/drive too fast.
'Cause I figure as long as no one's getting hurt or put in real danger, it's all good.
Have you tried jEdit? It rules. http://www.jedit.org/
Additional information at http://community.jedit.org/index.php
It's written in Java, but it's still fast, and you can run it on all the platforms you might have at home or work. You can also very easily emulate most of the features you mentioned: tabbed documents, file management, syntax highlighting, etc. Plus, it is very extensible with macros, reconfigurable key shortcuts, plug-ins, etc. Try it!
Perhaps best of all, it's free (as in beer)!
Download it here!
Ah, Kent.
:-)
One time, while we were living in Kent, someone busted out the passenger side lock on our car to get inside to steal stuff. Their haul? Two 24-packs of soda. Sprite and Coke, I think.
What? They were expecting us to keep gold bars in the trunk of a Cavalier? C'mon. There was nothing visible inside the car.
Is this story in any way related to this Segway theft? Maybe not so much. But I was just happy to see Kent, WA mentioned in the news.
They make pinwheels there, too, down in the valley.
There is one in St. Louis Park, too, conveniently located for you "westside" people.
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Hey, did those older computers with "Turbo" switches actually DO anything? And if so, why wouldn't you want your computer to be running as fast as possible anyway?
:-)
The Turbo button always kinda frustrated me, but it made a light go on and off, so the entertainment from that negated the frustration.
And I'm sure even brick layers have something they're overly anal about that we as non-brick-laying folk never notice and could care less about. Is the mortar of an exact depth around every brick? No? Tear it down and start over, and for godsakes, make sure the mortar is always the same thickness! The tenants would rather have evenly-spaced bricks than a place to live!
What ever happened to content being king? Let's see, I could spend my entire work week worrying about and tweaking graphics that are only by sheer chance going to look exactly the same on any two computers and completely ignoring the fact that I have no content. Or, I could put those same 40+ hours into generating useful content for my web site and creating 216 color graphics simply accepting the fact that no matter what I do, I won't be able to make the site look the same to everyone all of the time, but it will look acceptable to most people most of the time.
:-)
Consider the adolescent surfing or watching scrambled cable channels for prOn. Millions of colors, 216 colors, 4 colors, B&W dither; crystal-clear reception, wavy scrambled picture with audio, wavy without audio, audio only. It doesn't matter at that point, all they want is the content. It all boils down to content, folks, both pictures and non-pictures.
(And don't tsk, tsk me for the prOn bit...you know you've done it, too.
There's too much BS you have to wade through on the designer side, and this whole color palette issue is just one little pile in the heap. (Clients looking for a seventh round of revisions is another pile.) That's why I switched back over to the development side. They can argue over the colors looking right, while I just make the damn thing work.
I was in there several years ago, and I couldn't get a Dinosaur Jr. CD because they "don't carry that kind of music." Whew! Good thing they saved me from that! I was also in there a few years later with my wife (then gf) and she gave me a quick kiss by the CDs. Some older female associate saw it and asked us, "Please don't do that here...there are children around." Apparently, kiss = prOn at Walmart...