On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 03:35:14PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: [...] > > I don't care _how_ powerful anyone's editor is. Scripting, macros, > add-ons, modules, whatever. Not interested. Strictly CUA or GTFO.
Liam, I wanted to say this few months ago already (back in Nov, the "Editor" thread - BTW, thanks for the links to editors wiki and other interesting pointers). So, what I wanted to say is, this posture is going to backfire, I am afraid. The new crowd is coming, who newer had any chance to use anything resembling a terminal (including terminal-like experience as wobbly as given by MS Windows). They (crowd) too will be saying things like GTFO - for now, they just top post awfully long replies (perhaps because their phone/web-based MUAs cannot offer them easy way to cut the crap?) and refuse to see any wrong in it. They also happen to break threads like they were paid to do it and since I am subscribed to way too many lists where this occurs, I have already gave up manual linking of threads with mutt - righting wrongs of the crowd is a job for a program, not for single human. I only have to devise it during free time, when I have some. Given that they are soon (if not already) going to be a "dictatoring" majority, I am not so sure the "GTFO" is the right kind of message to send out. Even though I have no idea what a constructive message could look like. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
