Tag Archives: RMF

Red Meat Friday: Word

Posted on 2021-02-19 by jcs

Microsoft Word: What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) typesetting software that is widely used for writing despite its lack of decent version control and text entry/editing functionality#vim #emacs #rmarkdown #pandoc — Martin Skarzynski (@marskar) February 18, 2021 And … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Real Programmers Use TECO

Posted on 2021-02-05 by jcs

Think you’re tough because you use Vi or Emacs? Or even ed? “Real Programmers” don’t think so. “”Real Programmers” FTW #emacs #teco https://t.co/cEUEwClDBg pic.twitter.com/Jwvs87X1AY — (((bob pasker))) (@rbpasker) January 31, 2021 It’s hard to see the entire text in the … Continue reading →

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Read Meat Friday: A Trojan In Your Editor

Posted on 2021-01-08 by jcs

Is there a backdoor in your editor? Probably not, even if you’re using IntelliJ, but in a moment of schadenfreude for FOSS folks, the New York Times is reporting that JetBrains software may have been used as vector in the … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: C++

Posted on 2020-12-25 by jcs

It’s Christmas and it’s Friday so here’s a little gift from the Minions and me: #quotes #tech #CPP #programming #language #emacs pic.twitter.com/K5uWmRuVph — Devopedia (@devopedia) December 25, 2020

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Red Meat Friday: WTF

Posted on 2020-08-21 by jcs

Richard Stallman. Sometimes it’s hard to know what to think. On the one hand, he can be extraordinarily irritating and he holds all sorts of opinions that I and many people don’t agree with. On the other hand, no matter … Continue reading →

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RMF: Emacs and Vim Are Not Line Editors

Posted on 2020-08-14 by jcs

Ed is a line editor. QED is a line editor. Even Edlin is a line editor. Vim and Emacs are not: they’re visual or full-screen editors. This Red Meat Friday offering may not exercise most of you but I find … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Offered Without Comment

Posted on 2020-07-31 by jcs

Lol. This is too funny. #linux #vim > #emacs > #nano #programming #editors pic.twitter.com/hIcM96F0GG — pwnaday (@pwnaday) July 31, 2020

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Red Meat Friday: Word as a Random Number Generator

Posted on 2020-07-17 by jcs

As you all know, Word is one of my favorite whipping boys. I often say it’s the worst piece of software ever foisted on an unsuspecting public. Doubtless that’s hyperbolic but Word is something I try never to use. Karl … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: What Could Have Been

Posted on 2020-07-03 by jcs

Here’s some red meat for all you parentheses haters and Blub users: Society if Lisp had been industry standard since 1958 pic.twitter.com/cRsaDTMPmP — julesh (@_julesh_) July 2, 2020 It’s probably a little hyperbolic but it feels right to us Lisp … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Atom and VSCode

Posted on 2020-06-05 by jcs

I recently saw a tweet that has some things to say about Atom and VSCode that are sure to make certain heads explode. It’s red meat, it’s Friday so here’s today’s Red Meat Friday offering: Years ago, I wish I … Continue reading →

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