[boulder.pm] emacs, vim, gardening and stuff

Lewis, Donald G donald.g.lewis at lmco.com
Fri Jun 21 11:16:36 CDT 2002


I prefer emacs too. It can do some amazing stuff, don't know about vim. But
my problem too is that I do not understand all of the code behind emacs so I
tend to leave it the way I find it. Sometimes it will not do what I want
even though I know it is possible for it to do. For instance the version
here at work is sort of plain vanilla, best I can tell, and I cannot figure
out how to get the syntax to display in color and for it to check the parens
and other constructs.

I like your garden. I too would prefer to spend all of my time gardening,
but such is life. I recently moved into a new house with essentially nothing
for a garden. It is a HOA property so I am going through the hoops to get
stuff approved by "the committee". In some ways I envy my son in Florida
because he can grow stuff year around. But then right now I don't envy him,
55 degree evenings is real nice.
- Don Lewis, Lockheed Martin


>-----Original Message-----
>.From: David Nicholas Kayal [mailto:davek at saturn5.com]
>Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:19 AM
>To: boulder-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
>Subject: Re: [boulder.pm] Hmm, now this is either the most boring list
>ever,or it's broken :)
>
>
>Well....
>
>I learned emacs and I'm lazy.  The keystrokes are barely more than a
>thought.
>If something works, I generally don't try to fix it.  Which is one of
>the reasons why I have winded code.  In addition to that, I am trying to
>improve my communication skills.
>
>Oh, btw the way.  I'm not a perl programmer.  I'm a gardener.>
>
>here is a photo shoot of one the the gardens I've done.
>
>	http://yayproductions.com/garden/
>
>This is my favorite shot:
>
>	http://yayproductions.com/garden/sixmonthslater/100-0002_img.jpg
>
>I'm afraid though, that you will have to use something other than Links to
>view them.
>
>
>
>
>On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Luke Palmer wrote:
>
> > anyway...
> >
> > i prefer emacs.
>
> I like vim. It's all about the colors, baby.  Emacs didn't have colors on
> console until 21.1, and now that it does, they are ugly.  Especially
> Perl's.
> 	And I don't know how to write a emacs syntax file.  For those of
> you who use vim, and like Perl 6 as much as me (ok, nobody), attached is
> my first draft of a Perl 6 syntax highlighting file.
> 	Why is emacs better?
>
> Luke
>



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