[bf1942] Off Topic Admin Question

Prodigy prodigy at redphive.org
Tue Jul 29 01:33:37 EDT 2003


Andreas,

Wow you're just like me =D  I write everything in elvis actually a vi clone
common with Slackware..  My latest project (http://myHLAdmin.com) is now
8634 lines of code, all from vi :)

Cheers,

James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas, Fredriksson" <andreas.fredriksson at dice.se>
To: "'Kenneth Porter '" <shiva at SewingWitch.com>; "'BF1942 Server List '"
<bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: RE: [bf1942] Off Topic Admin Question


>
> 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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