__/ [ ed ] on Thursday 14 December 2006 21:22 \__
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:08:01 +0000
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> __/ [ ed ] on Thursday 14 December 2006 19:51 \__
>>
>> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:44:08 +0000
>> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> OpenOffice gets pre-load, update notification
>> >>
>> >> ,----[ Quote ]
>> >> | Programmers released OpenOffice.org 2.1 on Tuesday. The version
>> >> | that a feature for Linux machines called Quickstarter, which
>> >> | preloads the office suite into memory so it launches faster
>> >> | when a user chooses to run it.
>> >> |
>> >> | [...]
>> >> |
>> >> | In addition, the new version includes an improved notification
>> >> | system that alerts users to new versions of the software.
>> >> `----
>> >>
>> >> http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6143359.html
>> >>
>> >> Trolls/shills who say that Microsoft Office starts more quickly
>> >> than OpenOffice should realise that they have libraries which
>> >> reside in memory and are loaded at startup. OpenOffice (and Linux)
>> >> has that capability too.
>> >
>> > it's not just office that does this, it's visual studio also.
>>
>> Who needs VS when you have gvim, gdb and gcc?
>
> no one *needs* vs. it's rather counter productive, i posted a url here
> a while ago about the way it rotts the brain.
>
> most people i know who use vs are closed minded people who just go
> along with a mantra... "we're in rome" etc etc... no thinking outside
> the box... no wanting to see what else there is in the world.
>
> gvim is certainly the right way to edit files. unlike vs, vim supports
> so many more file syntax highlighting modes and a syntax aware spell
> checker.
I was actually sort of kidding and referring to your other post. My editor is
Kate for most things (sometimes KWrite) and LyX for typesetting, unless I
must conform to some standard/templates, in which case it's Kate and TeX.
IDE's are kind of good but they kind of DIE (letter change) once you realise
that some alternatives are better. MATLAB, for example, has an IDE, but
after about a year I just ran the command-line interpreted and began using
Kate as the editor, over FTP (Konqueror). It does syntax highlighting, it's
quicker, and it's better integrated with the O/S/DE, not just the IDE.
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