Emacs, OTOH, has a keybinding style that translates great to other apps. GNU apps all use emacs keybindings (I wonder why), and even IDEs like eclipse have compatibility modes. I'm glad I'm not a vi user because I know I would never be able to get things done in GUI programs like eclipse.
Anyway, if you use a GNU system like Linux, you should learn emacs. Bash (readline), info, etc. all work just like emacs. It will really save you time and effort when every app uses the same keystrokes. C-t is a great timesaver in both bash and emacs.
Glad you realized you can use emacs keystrokes on bash. This doesn't mean much for emacs though. Bash allows for either emacs or vi keystrokes to be used. Type "set -o vi" to get it it use vi keystrokes, complete with the two modes. "set -o emacs" (which happens to be the default) to use emacs.
Also note, that while info might use keybindings similar to emacs, 'less', which is one of the most often used commands, uses vi keybindings.
Why doesn't vi let me go to the end of the line by pressing, say, end or going to the end of a shorter line and then pressing the up arrow? Irritating. I know a vi guru is going to explain how to do this now, but I don't really care about the answer.
Next time you don't really care about the answer, please do us a favor and quit blaming it on vi.
Already having innovated and implemented the "work-only-once" Windows 95, the "bluescreen after-only-one-operation" Windows NT, and the "crash-after-one-minute Internet Explorer", the "play-only-once" technology is well within the software giant's technical range.
Warning! The parent is not about what it seems to be!
The parent is actually pretty sneaky: Researchers who accept the advice and take up golf will eventually bump into the
Presidential Golf/Christian Prayer team and become hardcore Christians.;)
When was the last time we sent someone to the moon? The 60's.
Umm, no, that would be the 70's (Apollo-17).
And the last time a supersonic plane was developed? The 60's.
Umm...no again. Multiple supersonic aircraft have been developed after the 60's. Just not commercial supersonic aircraft. Even there, Russia and the US have cooperated in developing economic commercial supersonic craft. Google for it.
Is it just money? Why else did we begin to achieve notable success in aerospace in the 60's, and then backslide to where we are now? By 2020 we hope to be back where we were in the 60's. Great.
Ummmm...thats incorrect too, we didn't backslide at any point. Aviation technology has always been improving. Just because you don't see a vastly different looking plane when you from NY to LA doesn't mean that aerospace technology has not advanced. What do you think researchers at leading universities and research institutions have been doing? DARPA? NSF? Twiddling thumb?
There was no pressing reason to justify the costs of going back to the moon after the initial landings. There's also debate as to whether unmanned missions are better then manned ones.
None of this implies anything about aerospace research going through a 'backslide'.
2% more insulating efficiency than a regular door when it's open, you get 500% less insulating efficiency when it's closed.
Actually, thats probably not true. To me, it looks like the the strips are placed very close to each other and slide on top of each other. The color of the border of the strips makes it look like there's a gap between the strips, while in actuality, there's probably no gap. This would make it just as efficient as a regular door when closed.
here's a cool trick, add the other cars using the "c" key, and then drive into their oncoming lane with arrow keys. You actually can crash the cars!
Yep, that's pretty neat. Here's another cool trick: add the cars, and then wait for one thats going in the same direction as you are, to pass you. Then accelerate, and get/into/ the car in front of you, and see the world through its eyes!
I don't know that this 'feature' was intentional, but I do know that I'm wasting way too much time....
Not that I completely agree with that, but when the driver is making obvious mistakes that continually compromise safety, comments from the passengers are perfectly warranted, and contribute to safety.
BTW, the correct spelling is "equivalents".
Thats like saying outside driving school, there's no place where it is appropriate to tell anyone that what they did was incorrect. No one should get traffic tickets then. And no one should ever be at fault in any accident.
Yes, the "your"/"you're" distinction drives me crazy too, as does the "there"/"their"/"they're"
dude your so dumb no body care if there spelling those wrong
Hee hee, funny! But this sentence illustrates an important point: It took me much longer to read, parse, understand, correct, and re-read the sentence to make sense out of it and figure out exactly what it is trying to say. Good grammar and spelling would have reduced that time a whole lot.
Especially with regard to technical documents, these are typically written once, and read many times. It is a lot more efficient for the single writer to write correctly, and save multiple readers from having to perform error correction.
To those who make the silly argument that communication is all that matters, would you like it if we completely stopped using punctuation including periods and commas (since one could argue these are redundant)? How about if we stopped capitalizing the first letter of a sentence, and the first letters of proper nouns as well?
I feel this is the wrong forum for your 'corrections' and 'suggestions.'
There is no specific 'correct' forum for corrections and suggestions, the reason being that language is used in all forums as a means of communications. So this is not necessarily the wrong forum.
In fact, in the ideal situation here on/., a correction will be read by the parent poster, but not by most others, since it might end up being modded down.
It breaks the flow of the discussion.
Bad spelling and grammar contribute to incoherence which definitely breaks the flow of the discussion. Good spelling and grammar will reduce distractions and facilitate good flow of the discussion.
But people like you need to lighten the fuck up. The parent was making a joke.
I've lost a fair amount of weight over the past few weeks, and I am fucking light, you insensitive clod.
On a more serious note, understand that for a post to be funny, it has to make sense. Given that the/. readership is largely American, and given that many Americans cannot distinguish between countries in the middle east and India (which are radically different), its important that posts like the parent not be allowed to further spread false information and ignorance. Hence my post.
"India is the biggest democracy" is not a bullshit argument. The point there is, countries in the middle east that have punishments including chopping off body parts (like Saudi Arabia) are not democracies, because its highly unlikely that a successful democracy would vote to keep such punishments in.
BTW, I have Indian friends who could not point out the Netherlands or Sweden in a map of Europe. Generalizing about the ignorance of a group of people based on their nationality is stupid.
Maybe. But India doesn't go to war whenever it gets bored. Since it doesn't intend to pick and bomb a random country, it doesn't matter as much, if Indians know little about Netherlands or Sweden. On the other hand, since the American Congress, which represents the people of the US voted to go to war with Iraq, its important that Americans know something about the country they're going to war with, and at the very least, how other countries are different.
Well said.
And just for the record, this is not something that new. One of the main fathers of the constitution of India was also a so-called "untouchable".
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Vi plugin for the Eclipse editor: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/
Anyway, if you use a GNU system like Linux, you should learn emacs. Bash (readline), info, etc. all work just like emacs. It will really save you time and effort when every app uses the same keystrokes. C-t is a great timesaver in both bash and emacs.
Glad you realized you can use emacs keystrokes on bash. This doesn't mean much for emacs though. Bash allows for either emacs or vi keystrokes to be used. Type "set -o vi" to get it it use vi keystrokes, complete with the two modes. "set -o emacs" (which happens to be the default) to use emacs.
Also note, that while info might use keybindings similar to emacs, 'less', which is one of the most often used commands, uses vi keybindings.
Why doesn't vi let me go to the end of the line by pressing, say, end or going to the end of a shorter line and then pressing the up arrow? Irritating. I know a vi guru is going to explain how to do this now, but I don't really care about the answer.
Next time you don't really care about the answer, please do us a favor and quit blaming it on vi.
Already having innovated and implemented the "work-only-once" Windows 95, the "bluescreen after-only-one-operation" Windows NT, and the "crash-after-one-minute Internet Explorer", the "play-only-once" technology is well within the software giant's technical range.
...that even the editors at /. have given up attemping to spell correctly? "Apparantly" ?!?!
You mean, using Vista is like playing a game (of chance) ?
I swear!
Looks like you need one too. That would be needs, not need's.
And grammar, not grammer. Fine, I admit it: the joke was lost on me :p
Looks like you need one too. That would be needs, not need's.
Warning! The parent is not about what it seems to be! The parent is actually pretty sneaky: Researchers who accept the advice and take up golf will eventually bump into the Presidential Golf/Christian Prayer team and become hardcore Christians. ;)
Umm, no, that would be the 70's (Apollo-17).
And the last time a supersonic plane was developed? The 60's.
Umm...no again. Multiple supersonic aircraft have been developed after the 60's. Just not commercial supersonic aircraft. Even there, Russia and the US have cooperated in developing economic commercial supersonic craft. Google for it. Is it just money? Why else did we begin to achieve notable success in aerospace in the 60's, and then backslide to where we are now? By 2020 we hope to be back where we were in the 60's. Great.
Ummmm...thats incorrect too, we didn't backslide at any point. Aviation technology has always been improving. Just because you don't see a vastly different looking plane when you from NY to LA doesn't mean that aerospace technology has not advanced. What do you think researchers at leading universities and research institutions have been doing? DARPA? NSF? Twiddling thumb?
There was no pressing reason to justify the costs of going back to the moon after the initial landings. There's also debate as to whether unmanned missions are better then manned ones.
None of this implies anything about aerospace research going through a 'backslide'.
2% more insulating efficiency than a regular door when it's open, you get 500% less insulating efficiency when it's closed.
Actually, thats probably not true. To me, it looks like the the strips are placed very close to each other and slide on top of each other. The color of the border of the strips makes it look like there's a gap between the strips, while in actuality, there's probably no gap. This would make it just as efficient as a regular door when closed.
here's a cool trick, add the other cars using the "c" key, and then drive into their oncoming lane with arrow keys. You actually can crash the cars! Yep, that's pretty neat. Here's another cool trick: add the cars, and then wait for one thats going in the same direction as you are, to pass you. Then accelerate, and get /into/ the car in front of you, and see the world through its eyes!
I don't know that this 'feature' was intentional, but I do know that I'm wasting way too much time....
I know some might consider this unfair, but perhaps you'd fare better yourself if you made your spelling skills better?
I would think the best way is to have it printed on the front of a T-shirt that a cute co-ed is wearing....
Mods, *PLEASE* restore the dignity and honor of /. and mod down the post above as overrated. Pretty pretty please?
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Not that I completely agree with that, but when the driver is making obvious mistakes that continually compromise safety, comments from the passengers are perfectly warranted, and contribute to safety. BTW, the correct spelling is "equivalents".
Thats like saying outside driving school, there's no place where it is appropriate to tell anyone that what they did was incorrect. No one should get traffic tickets then. And no one should ever be at fault in any accident.
And if you'd like respond to me or flame for this, please go here http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/30/15 32238&tid=215&tid=4 to argue.
Actually, the accepted American way of pluralizing words with latin roots allows for adding an 's' at the end to pluralize: formula --> formulas etc.
dude your so dumb no body care if there spelling those wrong
Hee hee, funny! But this sentence illustrates an important point: It took me much longer to read, parse, understand, correct, and re-read the sentence to make sense out of it and figure out exactly what it is trying to say. Good grammar and spelling would have reduced that time a whole lot.
Especially with regard to technical documents, these are typically written once, and read many times. It is a lot more efficient for the single writer to write correctly, and save multiple readers from having to perform error correction.
To those who make the silly argument that communication is all that matters, would you like it if we completely stopped using punctuation including periods and commas (since one could argue these are redundant)? How about if we stopped capitalizing the first letter of a sentence, and the first letters of proper nouns as well?
There is no specific 'correct' forum for corrections and suggestions, the reason being that language is used in all forums as a means of communications. So this is not necessarily the wrong forum. In fact, in the ideal situation here on /., a correction will be read by the parent poster, but not by most others, since it might end up being modded down.
It breaks the flow of the discussion.
Bad spelling and grammar contribute to incoherence which definitely breaks the flow of the discussion. Good spelling and grammar will reduce distractions and facilitate good flow of the discussion.
Check it out at http://www.m-w.com/.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=raised explicitly lists "raise children" as an example.
I've lost a fair amount of weight over the past few weeks, and I am fucking light, you insensitive clod.
On a more serious note, understand that for a post to be funny, it has to make sense. Given that the /. readership is largely American, and given that many Americans cannot distinguish between countries in the middle east and India (which are radically different), its important that posts like the parent not be allowed to further spread false information and ignorance. Hence my post.
"India is the biggest democracy" is not a bullshit argument. The point there is, countries in the middle east that have punishments including chopping off body parts (like Saudi Arabia) are not democracies, because its highly unlikely that a successful democracy would vote to keep such punishments in.
BTW, I have Indian friends who could not point out the Netherlands or Sweden in a map of Europe. Generalizing about the ignorance of a group of people based on their nationality is stupid.
Maybe. But India doesn't go to war whenever it gets bored. Since it doesn't intend to pick and bomb a random country, it doesn't matter as much, if Indians know little about Netherlands or Sweden. On the other hand, since the American Congress, which represents the people of the US voted to go to war with Iraq, its important that Americans know something about the country they're going to war with, and at the very least, how other countries are different.
Well said. And just for the record, this is not something that new. One of the main fathers of the constitution of India was also a so-called "untouchable".