On Monday 06 February 2006 10:55, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Just as a reminder: the editor "joe" is now present in the SuSE rescue system. And vi too, of course ;-)
Thanks. Rescue mode is when I use vi, so I'll test drive joe sometime this week.
I used text mode for a month or two before I got X mode to work properly, back in SuSE 5.2 or something. Sax wasn't available or wasn't much good, and I hadn't discovered this list (did not even have internet, probably).
So, I used those tricks - and many people from that time, I guess.
Adversity is the mother of invention, right? I *like* command line mode for lots of reasons. It "feels" more direct and less cumbersome, particularly for system administrative tasks. Of course, there were few alternatives* to CLI when I started learning computers, so I'm biased. (*at the OS, not application level) Of course, a properly configured contemporary desktop running on top of today's SUSE Linux on top of powerful hardware is a beautiful thing, too!
(I wonder how Erik is progressing?)
Not too well, I'm afraid.
What do you think of my misinterpreted 'red' vs. 'blue' diagnosis? (I'm holding off discussing 'automatic dependency checking,', which I suspect has already been turned off, inadvertently or otherwise.) :-) Carl