Comments for The growing pains of NGEDIT http://blog.ngedit.com A blog on the development of the NGEDIT text editor Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:15:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 Comment on Why, oh WHY, do those nutheads use vi? by J http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-188682 J Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:56:41 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-188682 Silence: gvim is fine inside a graphical environment, at least under Windows where I use it. Console-vim is probably great in a Unix-centric environment, I guess. Tony: what I do find is that hardly anyone goes back after investing the time to learn. Of course there will be some self-selection and those who learn are not a random sample, but in any case I think that proves that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Cyrus, you exhibit such a high degree of smarts with that comment... pitiful. Personal-advice-you-need-even-if-you-didn't-ask-for-it: do read an article before assuming the content, especially if you're going to criticize it. Your life will be much better overall. Silence: gvim is fine inside a graphical environment, at least under Windows where I use it. Console-vim is probably great in a Unix-centric environment, I guess.

Tony: what I do find is that hardly anyone goes back after investing the time to learn. Of course there will be some self-selection and those who learn are not a random sample, but in any case I think that proves that there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

Cyrus, you exhibit such a high degree of smarts with that comment… pitiful. Personal-advice-you-need-even-if-you-didn’t-ask-for-it: do read an article before assuming the content, especially if you’re going to criticize it. Your life will be much better overall.

]]> Comment on Why, oh WHY, do those nutheads use vi? by Tony http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-168334 Tony Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:56:07 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-168334 When I started at university, the first years could not understand why anybody would want to use vi. Everybody tried to use more traditional editors like xedit and the like. By the start of second semester, everybody had switched over to vi for it's ease of use and it's speed. Once you have used it, you wouldn't go back. When I started at university, the first years could not understand why anybody would want to use vi. Everybody tried to use more traditional editors like xedit and the like. By the start of second semester, everybody had switched over to vi for it’s ease of use and it’s speed. Once you have used it, you wouldn’t go back.

]]> Comment on Why, oh WHY, do those nutheads use vi? by Silence http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-161903 Silence Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:22:16 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-161903 It's only lazy f-ckwits that complain about vi, sure you gotta use your brain at first to learn the commands; but then it 's power comes into play. it's gvim I can't stand ;-) It’s only lazy f-ckwits that complain about vi, sure you gotta use your brain at first to learn the commands; but then it ’s power comes into play. it’s gvim I can’t stand ;-)

]]> Comment on Why, oh WHY, do those nutheads use vi? by Cyrus http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-160557 Cyrus Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:43:34 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-160557 Why do they use vi? Because they fucking want to. Because it's their choice. Nobody is holding a gun to your head asking you to use it... try minding your own business you !@#$ing moron Why do they use vi? Because they fucking want to. Because it’s their choice. Nobody is holding a gun to your head asking you to use it… try minding your own business you !@#$ing moron

]]> Comment on Compiler overview (III) by J http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/06/12/compiler-overview-iii/#comment-153495 J Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:23:10 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/06/12/compiler-overview-iii/#comment-153495 shankar, I'm glad you found this interesting. I've often thought about recasting these articles into proper compiler-writing articles, but meanwhile here there are to help out whoever needs them! Writing a compiler is not as difficult as it's often thought to be, and I believe any serious programming should write at least one to become comfortable with all the concepts. I haven't written more than I did in the few articles in the blog. I will be working in the language in the near future again, as I plan to base ViEmu-scripting on it, so I might post a bit more, but unfurtunately I hardly have any time left from my main development work. Best wishes with your project! - Jon shankar, I’m glad you found this interesting. I’ve often thought about recasting these articles into proper compiler-writing articles, but meanwhile here there are to help out whoever needs them!

Writing a compiler is not as difficult as it’s often thought to be, and I believe any serious programming should write at least one to become comfortable with all the concepts.

I haven’t written more than I did in the few articles in the blog. I will be working in the language in the near future again, as I plan to base ViEmu-scripting on it, so I might post a bit more, but unfurtunately I hardly have any time left from my main development work.

Best wishes with your project!

- Jon

]]> Comment on Why, oh WHY, do those nutheads use vi? by functional bytes blog http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-153274 functional bytes blog Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:25:00 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/05/17/why-oh-why-do-those-nutheads-use-vi/#comment-153274 <strong>Vim Tutorials II...</strong> Postings zu Vim Tutorials und Cheat Sheets hatte ich ja schon öfter. Jetzt habe ich noch zwei Tutorials gefunden: Vim Introduction and Tutorial Why, oh, WHY do those #?@! nutheads use vi? ...... Vim Tutorials II…

Postings zu Vim Tutorials und Cheat Sheets hatte ich ja schon öfter. Jetzt habe ich noch zwei Tutorials gefunden:

Vim Introduction and Tutorial
Why, oh, WHY do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

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]]> Comment on Spring ‘08 Status Update by J http://blog.ngedit.com/2008/04/07/spring-08-status-update/#comment-148634 J Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:13:11 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2008/04/07/spring-08-status-update/#comment-148634 Thanks Jaime. With so many things at once, the solution is easy: everything goes a (little) bit slower :) Regards, - Jon Thanks Jaime. With so many things at once, the solution is easy: everything goes a (little) bit slower :)

Regards,

- Jon

]]> Comment on Spring ‘08 Status Update by Jaico http://blog.ngedit.com/2008/04/07/spring-08-status-update/#comment-148477 Jaico Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:43:08 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2008/04/07/spring-08-status-update/#comment-148477 Hey Jon, Amazing work! Hehe, I don't know how you manage to do all that things at the same time. All the best, Jaime Hey Jon,

Amazing work!
Hehe, I don’t know how you manage to do all that things at the same time.

All the best,

Jaime

]]> Comment on Compiler overview (III) by shankar http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/06/12/compiler-overview-iii/#comment-143178 shankar Sat, 24 May 2008 15:37:57 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2005/06/12/compiler-overview-iii/#comment-143178 Hi, I found this very useful. In fact I read this page many years ago, now that i am writing my own compiler for my software, i used google to find you again and refresh the knowledge. Have you done any further work on this? Would appreciate if you put up see also: links. Thank you. Hi,

I found this very useful. In fact I read this page many years ago, now that i am writing my own compiler for my software, i used google to find you again and refresh the knowledge. Have you done any further work on this? Would appreciate if you put up see also: links.

Thank you.

]]> Comment on ViEmu around the world by J http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/04/02/viemu-around-the-world/#comment-140189 J Wed, 14 May 2008 00:10:42 +0000 http://blog.ngedit.com/2007/04/02/viemu-around-the-world/#comment-140189 Thanks Conrad, the maps are over a year old now and not updated, so there are actually quite a few new places missing there! Thanks Conrad, the maps are over a year old now and not updated, so there are actually quite a few new places missing there!

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