On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:49:09 +0100, rickman  wrote:

> On 4/4/2017 6:27 AM, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:42:16 +0100, Rob Morley 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:21:50 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>>>
>>>> That was a rather off-topic comment for this NG: apologies.
>>>
>>> It might have inspired someone to go develop a fault-tolerant cluster
>>> using Pi compute modules ...
>>> :-)
>>>
>> Off topic?? there's a thread on the merits (or not) of metric units and
>> electric sockets. It's easy to miss the header is "ARMv8.1?"
>>
>> I'm thinking of getting it vaguely back on topic-ish as Yet Another vi v
>> emacs debate!
>
> Which side are you on.  My old editor, Codewright has had a stroke and I

Neither. I was "forced" to learn a bit of vi, as at the command prompt
there's little available after a failed boot of a pi. I use Geany (if on a
linux GUI) or notepad2 on XP these days.

> am finally learning a new one so I can use the same editor on the rPi
> and the PC.  Right now I am struggling to learn Emacs as I have heard so
> much good about it.  But it doesn't do much through the GUI.  :(
>
> Does VI even run on the PC?  How well does it deal with the Unix NL vs.
> PC CR/LF issue?  Codewright would just preserve what it saw used in the
> file being edited.  That was *great*.
>



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