Re: Text processor

[jason whizzird net]

On 19-Jun-99 Robin Miller scribbled:
> I'm not trying to start a flame war here, so I won't get
> into point-by-point rebuttals. Let's just all agree that vi
> is great, emacs is wonderful, and that mouse movement is not
> efficient. 
> 
> I feel like someone who needs a car and has been told that
> what they really need is truck. But being a pig-headed,
> non-programming person, I'm still going to opt for the car. 
> 
> Trying to alter the users to fit the tools never works, even
> though it's a lot easier on the tool-makers than designing
> tools to fit the users. :)

good point. but remember linux is young. it was developed by computer-geeks
(used with great respect) for their own needs: mostly programming, some mail or
research paper writing (ala TeX). it's just beginning to reach the mainstream.
soon it will have those things, and if you can't live without them suffer
through windoze or macOS for a little while longer.

> 
> Right now, I repeat, there is not a single decent text/HTML
> writing program for Linux. 

exactly what do you mean by "text/HTML writing"? 
to me (and probably most on this list) text means a simple ascii file. no fonts
or formatting (other than inserting spaces). and there are _loads_ of these for
linux. 
as for HTML, it's just plain text, like all other computer languages, that
gets interpreted by a program like netscape or a compiler. are you talking about
something like front-page? i don't think that anything like that exists for
linux--thankfully. such programs put an extra level between the developer and
his code, making it harder to maintain all functionality. and since the code
generation they use isn't anywhere near as smart as humans, they tend to add
redundancy and bloat.
> 
> -- Robin Miller
> Editor and Columnist
> 
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Date: 19-Jun-99
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