Re: Any Unicode Experts?

From	vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Any Unicode Experts?
Date	2021-08-10 13:43 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<setvqs$cqh$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:26:27 +0200, jak wrote:

> Il 10/08/2021 13:49, The Natural Philosopher ha scritto:
>> On 10/08/2021 09:33, jak wrote:
>>> Il 09/08/2021 15:56, rbowman ha scritto:
>>>> Back when a 1 GB hard drive was huge, the choice between Vim and
>>>> Emacs was a no-brainer. iirc Vim was 1.6 MB, Emacs was 25 MB. It
>>>> looks like gVim has porked up to 2.7.
>>>
>>> No. Further back. When a hard drive was huge if greater than 30MB.
>> 
>> haha.
>> when the PC running a serial program to the PDP 11 had more RAM than
>> the PDP!
>> 
>> And some twat ran IIRC SED all over the source files and turned
>> multiple spaces into tabs to reduce the space...and ruined all my C
>> string cọnstants!!!
>> 
>> Happy dayz.
>> 
>> It was quicker to grab the files over the serial link, edit them with
>> wordstar on the PC, and upload them and then compile them.
>> 
>> just used 'vi' for quick hacks...
>> 
>> 
> It should be remembered more often than to modify the source codes, the
> 'Vi' can be a great ally when it is renamed 'Ed'.

Thank gosh!

Sensible people on the usenets!

-- 
-v

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Any Unicode Experts? FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 14:39 +0000
  Re: Any Unicode Experts? FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 15:01 +0000
  US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2021-08-06 08:15 -0700
    Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-08-06 17:36 +0200
      Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 15:49 +0000
        Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2021-08-06 18:48 +0200
        Re: US-ASCII is a subset of the set of Unicode code points. FR <fr@random.info> - 2021-08-06 17:57 +0000
  Re: Any Unicode Experts? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-08-06 18:10 +0000
  Re: Any Unicode Experts? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-06 20:27 +0000
    Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-07 09:36 +0100
      Re: Any Unicode Experts? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2021-08-08 04:32 +0000
        Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-07 22:50 -0600
          Re: Any Unicode Experts? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-08-08 17:27 +0000
            Re: Any Unicode Experts? "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2021-08-08 20:21 +0200
            Re: Any Unicode Experts? Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2021-08-09 13:58 +0000
          Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-08 20:32 +0200
            Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-08 18:00 -0600
              "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2021-08-08 18:11 -0700
                Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-08 22:19 -0600
                Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2021-08-16 16:06 +0200
                Re: "while(1);" borks Visual Studio. jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 18:02 +0200
                while(malloc(666)); Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2021-08-10 09:28 -0700
                Re: while(malloc(666)); jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 18:39 +0200
              Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-09 07:28 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-09 07:56 -0600
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 10:33 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-10 12:49 +0100
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-10 15:26 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2021-08-10 13:43 +0000
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-10 21:12 -0600
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-08-11 12:25 +0100
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-11 16:52 +0000
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-11 20:19 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-08-12 16:37 +0000
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2021-08-12 20:32 +0200
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2021-08-12 20:40 -0600
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-08-10 16:11 -0400
                Re: Any Unicode Experts? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2021-08-13 17:42 +0000

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