[Coco] vim for coco3 os9 is now in Genes-os9-stf

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Sun Nov 9 16:13:04 EST 2014


On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 08:30:49PM -0600, Christopher R. Hawks wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 20:38:00 -0500
> Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 07 November 2014 20:17:49 Christopher R. Hawks did opine
> > And Gene did reply:
> > > On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 18:07:37 -0500
> > > 
> > > Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 07 November 2014 16:30:46 John W. Linville did opine
> > > > 
> > > > And Gene did reply:
> > > > > Not even on a CoCo3 with the NoCan3...
> > > > 
> > > > Further thinking on this Tim, since I interpret the above
> > > > statement to mean it will not run on your box;
> > > 
> > > [snipity, snip]
> > > 
> > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > > 
> > > Gene:
> > > 
> > > 	I think you are a victim of 'different client, different
> > > format'.
> > > 
> > > 	I'm sure John was responding to the 'Where's Emacs? ;)' from
> > > Aaron. (See John's message)
> > > 
> > Thats a good possibility Christopher, I note that somewhere in this 
> > interchange, somebodies email client did NOT properly handle the
> > quoting.
> > 
> > I generally use that to track who said what. I just wish it was more 
> > dependable because that is exactly why we pile on the leading >'s to 
> > identify how many times it has been around the circuit.  When
> > somebody thinks it cute to set their agent to not do that, they are
> > breaking one or more of the many RFC's that govern how email is
> > supposed to work.  Sigh.
> > 
> > And thanks Christopher. 
> > > 
> > > Christopher R. Hawks
> > > HAWKSoft
> > > --
> > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text
> > > Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
> > > A: Top-posting.
> > > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
> 	I figured you'd get a kick out that sig. That's the one I always
> use at work where I am forced to use (UGH) OutlQQk.

I actually prefer top posting. I use threading news and mail readers. with top posting
I can read the response to the previous reply without having to scroll all the way to
the bottom of the post.


The Other Frank


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