Sept 11th Meeting, What happened?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:58:44AM -0400, Michael Kennedy wrote:
> It branched out in a few directions, but the main thrust of the
> argument is that modern editors change the way we view the facilities
> at our fingertips, and the nature of each editor lends itself to
> different followers.  There was a heated camp of Emacs which I
> interpreted as 'I can call up anything I could possibly want in Emacs,
> so it is the best compromise between shell and editor.', then there
> was sparse 'vi' contingent which basically conceded that the only
> positive features of 'vi' came with the introduction of 'vim' and that
> the requirement for termcap basically amde it a blight on the history
> of UNIX.  And finally there was the 'silverback' contingent which
> debated the value of either of the preceding options when it was
> perfectly clear that all roads forked from 'ed', and by extention,
> 'qed'.  Of course this is my interpretation of the session, and is
> entirely up for debate as I'm sure others perceived it differently.

vim never needs more than 2 fingers to operate. :)

> And in there somewhere, someone (forgive me for not recalling the
> exact name) threw into the mix a query about how to edit SNMP MIBs.  I
> had suggested "MIB Smith", and I was wrong by a single trailing
> letter, it was "MIB Smithy"
> (http://www.muonics.com/Products/MIBSmithy/), which is decidely
> non-OSS, but was the only multi-platform option that came to mind for
> the query raised.
> 
> Interesting session overall, albeit probably not the most productive.
> And I didn't bring my $20...  So I guess I won't be invited back.  ;)

What $20?

> And in case you were wondering, I am in the 'vi' camp.  Though I
> definitely wouldn't use it to individually edit 850 source files to
> replace a repeated string.

That sounds like a job for perl or sed.

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