Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: News setup (was Re: cartoon) Date: 18 Jan 2000 23:03:43 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 75 Message-ID: <6un1q3ox4w.fsf_-_@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <85jo70$9pe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <947769121.932529@perla.rotterdam.luna .net> <948191102.314835@perla.rotterdam.luna.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chonsp.franklin.ch X-Trace: chonsp.franklin.ch 948233023 809 10.0.3.2 (18 Jan 2000 22:03:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jan 2000 22:03:43 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.ascii-art:7880 alfie@innocent.com (Gerfried Fuchs) writes: > Ojosh!ro wrote: > > > Hm, this implies, you're not using EMACS ;-) > > Tell me, who with a little mind is *evilgrin* NO, this is not to be a > vim/emacs-flame-start posting :) From every one of my news headers: X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 > > Indeed! I'm not using EMACS. > > I'm normally a VIM-coder, and I also use that for my ascii-art. Of course I also have vim for them small and quick editing jobs. So no editor war from me :-). > I double that - since I got vim I don't use any else editor anymore > (just on system that doesn't have it - but there I prefer nvi > nevertheless ;) I thought that is what them handy vim*.tar.gz files were for. You what!? There is no compiler here? Help! Panic!!! > > One of those 24*80 terms is perfect! > > Damned right! Can we expand this to 2 stacks of each 2-3 80x67 [1] xterm windows on an 1600x1200 X Terminal? [1] 67 = 66 lines man page + 1 line less/view status bar. Gives an very cool scrolling effect, like paging a printout. Try it. > > (Only thing is I get inverted image here... =( but hey! ) Monitors are ment to be light writing on dark background, thats why they are dark when off. This modern "paper emulation" stuff is crap. Try screwing up a monitor and throwing it into a waste monitor basket. :-) > You know about the ":hi normal ctermfg=white ctermbg=black", don't you? > :) Of course I have X set up as black desktop, no icons, xterms black background with _green_ [2] text (yellow for bright/bold :-)). Window frames minimal and in neutral dark gray with white writing. [2] why would any one set a colour screen to white text with all that eye-tiring "white as 3 colors mixed with pixels slightly offset"? Try green. > And one quote about EMACS (which really stands for "Eight MegAbytes of > Continuous Swapping") (by heart, I don't have the exact quote here): > > "EMACS is a good OS. The only thing it lacks is a decent text-editor. > That's why I use Vim!" -- don't know the name yet I actually use it mainly because of the mailer and newsreader. :-) Yes, I should try mutt and slrn. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Nerd, Geek, Unix Wizzard and Guru, Hacker, Roleplayer, Mystic Computer: toy that speeds work, so you have more time to play with it