On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> d) And then there stuff that I'm not sure of the purpose... like eclipse, > that > needs 2GB to run... for an editor. > > mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!"And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. Using a editor that understands html tags so you can collapse ones not being edited does make life simpler. Also lets you know, indirectly, when your copy and pasting messed up the tag pairing.
Robert Moskowitz wrote:> On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:>> d) And then there stuff that I'm not sure of the purpose... like >> eclipse, that needs 2GB to run... for an editor. >> >> mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" > > And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. > > Using a editor that understands html tags so you can collapse ones not > being edited does make life simpler. Also lets you know, indirectly, > when your copy and pasting messed up the tag pairing.Yeah, well, I've tried word processors, and, years back, I tried Quanta, which was specifically for working on web pages, and the HTML generated by all word processors sucks dead Mar-a-Lago roaches. And *all* of them want to left-justify, even if there's an option not to, and you set that, rather than leaving it properly indented. mark
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 2:06 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >>> d) And then there stuff that I'm not sure of the purpose... like >>> eclipse, that needs 2GB to run... for an editor. >>> >>> mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" >> >> And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. >> >> Using a editor that understands html tags so you can collapse ones not >> being edited does make life simpler. Also lets you know, indirectly, >> when your copy and pasting messed up the tag pairing. > > Yeah, well, I've tried word processors, and, years back, I tried Quanta, > which was specifically for working on web pages, and the HTML generated by > all word processors sucks dead Mar-a-Lago roaches. And *all* of them want > to left-justify, even if there's an option not to, and you set that, > rather than leaving it properly indented. >The forced left justify part reminds me of a conversation I had with a vendor last year. It was something on the lines of "I know this might come as a shock to you but there are people out there who has phone numbers that are not exactly 9 digits long and postal codes with letters and numbers."> mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 10:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:> > On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> > mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!"> And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany.Gedit works for me - webpages, PHP, init (with Vi) et cetera. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
On 04/16/2017 04:37 PM, Always Learning wrote:> On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 10:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" >> And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. > Gedit works for me - webpages, PHP, init (with Vi) et cetera.That means loading gnome. I use Xfce. Much better battery life with Xfce.