Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Frank Küster wrote: > > So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? > > No, there's actually three classes: "Simple editors for newbies", > "not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors", and "religions". ae is the religion variety.

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-11 Thread Frank Küster
Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: >> Juergen Salk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly >> > six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, >> > mined, ne, ned

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-10 Thread Miles Bader
Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You're right in general, but there actually seems to be a fairly >> distinct divide in editors, between "simple editors for newbs" and >> "not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors" > > So vim is in the simple, for newbies class? Naw, it just needs "p

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-10 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: > Juergen Salk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly > > six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, > > mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not > > be

Re: Powerfulness

2006-01-09 Thread Miles Bader
Juergen Salk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly > six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, > mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not > belong to them. Does that mean these are less powerful than the >

Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 03:28:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: > > > I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using > > meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in > > package descriptions in general. > > Sounds like so

Re: Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 23:52 +0100, Juergen Salk wrote: > I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using > meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in > package descriptions in general. Sounds like something that should be added to lintian. I suggest filing a wishlist bug

Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

2006-01-07 Thread Juergen Salk
* Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060107 14:13]: > Description : tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby First of all: This is not against you, Vincent. :-) I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in package