[bf1942] Off Topic Admin Question

Kendokan kendokan at amateur-hour.net
Fri Jul 25 17:27:31 EDT 2003


A web front-end should be trivial to write in just about anything. PHP,
Perl, Python, etc. Speaking of Python, when can we expect a version of log
compression that will work with the PHP standard zlib functions?

     -d


>
> then of course there is the basic text editor, "pico" or "nano" which make
> it really easy to configure software on a linux server. i mean vi and
> emacs are great, but for newbs, pico and nano are great alternatives.
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Andreas, Fredriksson wrote:
>
>>
>> I use vim exclusively for all programming, I actually switched from
>> emacs to vi because it felt like I finally "came home".
>>
>> It must hurt a bf-playing emacs users to hear that the parts of the
>> code were written in vi. :-D
>>
>> But I agree that teaching vi to users not really interested in editors
>> is more work than making a web frontend to ServerSettings.con :-)
>>
>> IIRC there are several frontends readily available already.
>>
>> // Andreas
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kenneth Porter
>> To: BF1942 Server List
>> Sent: 7/25/2003 11:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Off Topic Admin Question
>>
>> --On Friday, July 25, 2003 01:19:45 PM -0500 Lee Latham
>> <leeprivate at cgmlarson.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Teaching people vi against their will is not too rewarding...been
>> there,
>> > done that!
>>
>> Ick. I can never remember how to get out of vi when I've somehow
>> accidentally started it. I'm exclusively an Emacs user. :D (Actually, I
>> mostly use Lugaru Epsilon, an Emacs clone for other platforms that's now
>>
>> been ported to Linux and BSD. http://www.lugaru.com/)
>>
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