Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:51:22 01/03/03
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On January 03, 2003 at 16:47:52, Frank Phillips wrote:
>On January 03, 2003 at 16:20:20, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On January 03, 2003 at 16:06:38, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>
>>>On January 03, 2003 at 14:32:07, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 03, 2003 at 06:59:58, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 02, 2003 at 19:34:49, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Look how LAZY Windows programming has made us!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Real programmers don't even need an editor. They just redirect the console to a
>>>>>>file and type in the program directly. And they don't need an HLL either. They
>>>>>>type in the assembly language opcodes (no Macro assembler either -- that's
>>>>>>cheating.) Real programmers think in hex.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Real programmers don't need IDE's or debuggers or any of that stuff. Especially
>>>>>>not any sort of syntactic suger like C++ and things of that ilk.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We have really gotten soft since the old days.
>>>>>
>>>>>I started out with MS VC++, then moved to Linux and the KDevelop IDE. Now gVim.
>>>>> No doubt sortly Vim, then Emacs and then hitting myself with a brick.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>What do you think about Kdevelop? Nothing good as I understand, as you dropped
>>>>it...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Christophe
>>>
>>>On the contrary, I liked it and still do. But I needed to force myself to learn
>>>Vim for the times I had to edit configuration files in pure console mode, and
>>>got addicted. I have tried Emacs too, but this is a step too far for me.
>>>
>>>gVim is what I normally use.
>>>
>>>KDevelop is good; and has the big advantages of integrating the debugger in a
>>>similar way to MS VC++. I believe the next big release is due out soon under
>>>its new name....which I do not remember.
>>>
>>>(Hope the Linux Tiger will be xboard compatible.).
>>>
>>>Frank
>>>
>>>BTW Kate is pretty good too.
>>
>>
>>
>>Looks like the bug I have found in Kdevelop 2.1.3 is the ONE that is fixed in
>>2.1.4. So I'm downloading the rpm while I'm answering to you...
>>
>>Kate is quite good but suffers of a problem with the cursor. I have found this
>>problem running both Peanut Linux and RH8. I'm going to try to describe it, but
>>that's not easy to explain (much easier to see when you use it):
>>
>>when you type a text or move the cursor around with the arrow keys, the cursor
>>does not appear immediately. It keeps on blinking, but when you type a key it
>>starts by blinking in the "off" state.
>>
>>So if you keep the right-arrow pressed for example, you do not see the cursor
>>moving. For a split of a second you do not know where you are.
>>
>>I find this problem extremely annoying, to the extend that it makes Kate a pain
>>to use.
>>
>>This problem was here in KDE 3.0.0 and is still here in KDE 3.0.3...
>>
>>Back to on-topic: yes I think the Linux Tiger will be XBoard compatible.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>
>Great news about Tiger. I thought maybe Ed would beat you to it by making Rebel
>xboard comaptible in his retirement.
>
>I cannot reproduce the cursor bug with Kate 2.0, KDE3.0.3 and Mandrake 9.0.
>Maybe your reaction time (perception) is faster than mine! (Although there is
>an anoying flashing underline character ahead of the vertical cursor at times.)
> Not sure what you mean by off/on state cursor. Mine stays as a vertical bar.
>
>Frank
By cursor off I mean that the vertical bar is not visible.
If I keep the right arrow pressed to go to the end of a long line for example,
the cursor is not visible while it moves.
Maybe this is RedHat-specific...
The interesting thing is that Kwrite has the same problem, but not Kedit!
Christophe
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