rhabarba

Booooo!

This is the first time I've heard about any of these. Thank you!

I’m not even sure if the point IS relevant at all. The software-side difference between “the user pressed I, am I in command mode?” and “the user pressed I, did he also press Ctrl?” is not that big.

Granted, one is Shift and one is Caps Lock…

All text editors are modal editors though, all text editors have a command mode and an input mode.

In (q)ed/ex/vi and their direct and/or spiritual successors, you'll reach Command Mode by pressing Escape. In Emacs, it's Ctrl/Alt/Meta. In Acme, it's the mouse. Even editors which (almost?) follow the CUA standards have a Command Mode - using the Ctrl modifier key.

That's a reason to switch from Emacs to Acme. ;-)

Well... https://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

What's wrong with Acme?

> The same person

Go was designed by:

- Robert Griesemer, known for nothing else,

- Rob Pike, primarily known for sam(1), acme(1) and several other Plan 9 tools, the Blit (Unix's own graphical terminal), UTF-8 (with Ken Thompson), Inferno and Limbo,

- and Ken Thompson, ancient god.

Longhorn is poor man's 9P2000. ed is poor man's sam. (Can be continued.)

I see my mistake. Sorry.

Unpopular opinion: Gemini is Gopher done wrong. There is no need for a TLS layer in a protocol that won't let you POST, and there is nothing Gemini can do that Gopher(+) could not, except that it features "some" formatting - and then again, why not just stick with HTML?

There's no place for Gemini.

> They _are_ being clear: they have only tested it to work on Linux. It is you that misreads it, probably because, I'm guessing, you aren't familiar with the language of OSS READMEs

That might well be the case here. No, I don't try to win arguments on the internet. :-) Thank you.

> They aren't lying. They're being clear.

Just two posts above this one, you claimed that downloading a different ocas binary would probably work. So ocicl does not only work on Linux, right?

> even Windows runs Linux now.

Optionally. WSL2 is not (installed and) activated by default.

> intersected with the area targeted by this project, where Linux is commonplace.

I wrote none of my Lisp tools on Linux, and I never received a Linux-related bug report for those. I wonder where I can find numbers on that.

> look.

I did look - at the README of the linked site, which clearly states:

> ocicl (...) only works on Linux

I don't see a reason why the author(s) of ocicle should lie to me. (If they do: even worse.)

> Linux is not a niche in the target market for this project.

[citation needed]

My employer uses Windows on all workstations. How is this related to my comment?

Rephrased less incorrectly: A 5-day-old project is advertised on a quite popular website but still only supports one niche operating system.

TIL about CLPM. Thank you.

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This would be just another use case for SCCS, actually.

troff exists.

Yeah, no, I'll stick with troff, thank you.

Forum platforms have either been dead for twenty years or they’ll never die.

Admittedly, the days of “everyone runs their own phpBB” are long gone (basically, Facebook killed them), but no single social network can replace structured, threaded discussion boards yet.

Which is good.

Everyone knows that. :-p In fact, Corel finally asks for feedback for WordPerfect explicitly, so I imagine that they finally noticed what a gem they acquired.

Quattro Pro is still a mess, but WordPerfect remains to be the most amazing WYSIWYG text processor in existence.

I much prefer the earlier logos with more text and less emojis.

OS X is Darwin.

They mostly run on Linux though, not Unix.

To be fair, IBM still has them. But IBM doesn’t care about AIX much anymore either.

Nvidia graphics cards. Just saying.

Now, did it end well?