> I've never seen anybody use the CDE text editor > as his primary editor.
I have. It's not a pretty sight, but I have seen it done, as well as people using "vuepad" from HPVUE (sorta like CDE, a predecessor), under HPUX 9.x
It's simple, and easy to get up to speed, but *so* limiting.
> Why anybody in his right mind would do this?
You might have nailed it here...:-)
Seriously though, most people I've seen using it don't spend much time editing ASCII text, and don't miss what they haven't experienced. They're happy, and aside from suggesting emacs whenever I can (it's gotten to be a joke), I leave them alone.
The nice (or at least honest) thing about Goto.com is that they are very upfront about the fact that a specific hit is sponsored, and even how much it cost the company or organization.
Well, I considered jim-buchanan.xxx when I discovered (no surprise) that buchanan.com,.net, and.org were already taken, but that would not have been ideal, as I wanted a domain for all interested members of my family to use. It didn't take long to discover that buchanan1.com, net, and.org were free. I got buchanan1.net, since then buchanan1.com has been taken...
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> I've never seen anybody use the CDE text editor > as his primary editor.
:-)
I have. It's not a pretty sight, but I have seen it done, as well as people using "vuepad" from HPVUE (sorta like CDE, a predecessor), under HPUX 9.x
It's simple, and easy to get up to speed, but *so* limiting.
> Why anybody in his right mind would do this?
You might have nailed it here...
Seriously though, most people I've seen using it don't spend much time editing ASCII text, and don't miss what they haven't experienced. They're happy, and aside from suggesting emacs whenever I can (it's gotten to be a joke), I leave them alone.
> I've never understood why people use CDE,
Amen.
At work though, I feel that I need to, since 99.9% of my users do. It's the default on the 1000 or so HPUX 20.2 and Solaris 2.7 machines we have.
Some of the more sophisticated users switch to a better window manager, and I did too, before I joined the admin group.
Why anyone would clone it is beyond me.
The nice (or at least honest) thing about Goto.com is that they are very upfront about the fact that a specific hit is sponsored, and even how much it cost the company or organization.
Well, I considered jim-buchanan.xxx when I discovered (no surprise) that buchanan.com, .net, and .org were already taken, but that would not have been ideal, as I wanted a domain for all interested members of my family to use. It didn't take long to discover that buchanan1.com, net, and .org were free. I got buchanan1.net, since then buchanan1.com has been taken...