On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 06:09:55AM +0100, Daniele B. wrote: > Feb 19, 2023 03:49:45 Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl>: > [...] > > I ended up uninstalling it however thanks for this command too, interesting.
Yep. I admit I am unceremonial when dealing with my own systems. And I am not sure if I would follow my own advices if I was not me. > (Hint to read the rest of my reply: I'm always in the need to mind, use or > project > myself *effective* gui despite the context. Thats my second job! ) > > > Install Midnight Commander, perhaps? Warning: it does not have [...] > Thanks for the charm of gem, indeed.. :D > > > > > I also like dired-mode in Emacs, but for this to work, one has to like > > Emacs. Actually, one has to love Emacs. "Like" is not enough in this > > case. > > Difficult to evaluate and comment on a *big stuff* like Emacs. [...] > > Summarizing again: I'm not in the need of Emacs (I'm focus on the > web since years) and I think fortunately is so. As of MC being a gem, it did not come to my mind until writing of my previous email, but, yes, it worked for so many years and I do not recall it failing me even once. Discs, operating systems, unicode in filenames, it keeps to "just working". Emacs, while much more complicated, is in different league - it is an alien artefact standing in the middle of a cornfield. I think most people simply pretend it is not there. Very few really need Emacs, which is good, I think. I sometimes - very rarely - use graphical file managers. They seem too slow. But if they do the job, fine. As a side note, since we speak about file management, I also often do things with files from command line. Not very long ago I did it to about 17 thousand small files scattered in few dirs. I had to write a shell script and test quite a bit, because error was not good idea. But if you plan to do complex procedures with files, writing a script/program can help a lot. Also, doing not so complex procedures, but when one is afraid to make a mistake. I am sometimes only half-awaken, so writing commands in that state of mind is risky. A script, sometimes a Makefile, run it when I am in hurry, so the computer (who never gets nervous) takes this off me. > Indeed, my best advice about gui is that any good stuff should be > concieved simple enough to result effective to user. > > I want also to thank you for the time of your post. I got the lucky > chance to read you monitoring the fever of my daughter. And sorry > for the off-topic commenting style. Oh. I hope your daughter is going to be ok. Keep smiling. -- 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 **
