Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Not just Linux has significant UI issues... a first look at Windows 10 Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 06:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Organization: ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand Lines: 93 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:322245 Snit wrote: > On 9/22/15, 10:54 PM, in article sad9.fao3@rooftop.invalid, "owl" > wrote: >> Snit wrote: >>> On 9/22/15, 10:35 PM, in article feal3.f02@rooftop.invalid, "owl" >>> wrote: >> >>>> Snit wrote: >>>>> On 9/22/15, 10:13 PM, in article fdsa0ae.kig@rooftop.invalid, "owl" >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>>>>>> Why the hell would I need my WP to open a file nine times the size of >>>>>>>>> the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Why wouldn't you? >>>>>> >>>>>>> Because except for some edge cases there is absolutely no need for the >>>>>>> general user. >>>>>> >>>>>> So you are the arbiter of what everyone needs/wants in their editor >>>>>> of choice? >>>> >>>>> Non sequitur insults do not impress. >>>> >>>> Neither does imagining non-existent non sequiturs. >>>> >>>>>>> For huge logs and the like there may be occasional use for system >>>>>>> administrators, etc. >>>>>> >>>>>> You can edit binary files with vim. It is not uncommon for binary >>>>>> files to be huge. >>>> >>>>> Not in contention. >>>> >>>> So did you have a point to make at all? >>>> >>> Yes, the one I made above. >> >> What point was that? The one where you made a proclamation about what >> the general user needs in an editor, and then tried to hide behind the >> "non sequitur" smoke screen when called out on it? > The one where you asked a question, I answered, and then you responded with > fantasizes about me. > Now can you actually get back to the topic of technology and PLEASE stop > talking about your fantasizes of me. >>> And then you changed topics away from technology >>> to... me... or, really, your fantasies of me. >> >> It was you who changed the topic from technology to sociology. >> >>> First you note how you are uncomfortable with your own homosexual tendencies >>> then you start publicly fantasizing about me. >> >> So you're taking drugs tonight. OK. Party on then. > And you share MORE of your fantasizes about me. Please: try to talk about > technology. Here, to help you: > You asked why Notepad, a low end consumer focused text tool, would not > handle huge files that most people would never encounter or use... and those > that would, as even you note, would be more likely to use an actual > feature-rich text editor such as vim. I guess since you are drowning in froth you failed to notice that notepad actually *does* handle files of that size. Just not very efficiently. > I noted that the developers likely would not take much time to make sure it > can handle such files What makes you think that any effort is required to "make sure it can handle such files"? In less than 30 lines of code, including error checking, you can have an app that can open (instantly) a file of arbitrary size and write to an arbitrary position in that file without even allocating memory. > because the use-cases of such would be rare: the > general user would have no need or desire for such a tool, not that it doing > so would harm them in any way and I certainly would not be against it > working with such files. You wouldn't be against it. That's the important thing, right? Snit's approval? LOL. > Got it... or are you too busy dealing with your discomfort of your > homosexual feelings and your fantasizes about me? You're all gay'ed up tonight aren't you.