Re: OT editors

mAsterdam wrote:
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> As someone who experienced (mainframe) editors like Xedit (Mansfield
> keeps a PC version (Kedit) alive, but who knows how long it will be
> supported) I cannot get used to the clumsiness of vi.

Well, the vi people I knew might have said the same about xedit as Dirty Harry when he was assigned to the HR department, something the same as what I hear in my mind's eye every day when local traffic news mentions accident on 88th st., the way they pronounce it, it comes out as ayjut street. Might be right from what I've seen of that suburg. Anything good that IBM did in those days was supressed by IBM, CMS, Rexx et cetera because stuff that stood on its own wasn't in IBM's self-interest. However, when the dominant hardware and environment changes, there's no good reason to perpetuate xedit, nor vi, they are both very environment-specific, or as you might put it, not environment-neutral, which term, strangely, seems to be pertinent here.

You still haven't explained how a relation can have two headers. Do you

   think it can or not? I have the impression that you are dodging the question by picking holes or otherwise darting around in the ether. Received on Sat Dec 08 2007 - 05:06:59 CET