On 05/04/17 10:12, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:49:09 +0100, rickman  wrote:
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>> On 4/4/2017 6:27 AM, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
>>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:42:16 +0100, Rob Morley 
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 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.

Theres a wonderful console based 'Look I look just like wordstar' editor
for Linux somewhere...Joes Own Editor, or JOE IIRC.

Frankly I may switch to that for book writing...

>
>> 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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