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On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:42 -0500, Fred wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 01:13 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 20 January 2008 01:13:52 pm [hidden email] wrote: > ... > > > Hope you don't > > > have a video running. Hope no one else is using it while you want to. > > > > I suppose not. But really, the only applications I typically run remotely are > > command line anyhow, which works just the same on both Linux and Mac OS X. > > In my brief experience with the Mac on one engagement, I was annoyed > with how it's command-line console works. It's not quite like KDE at all > -- differences in the keyboard shortcuts, copy and paste, and other > things drove me nuts. Not to mention getting the console windows > perfectly aligned. > > Also, for multiple monitors, the Mac behaves in the way Xinerama does on > Linux -- tries to treat all your monitors as though they're one -- with > the obvious annoyance that your desktop bar exists only on one monitor. > It's very annoying to have to drag the mouse across 3 monitors just to > launch another application. Windows also has the failing. Neither > Windows nor Mac give you the option of having a desktop bar on *all* > monitors like XWindows does. > > I guess I am used to the way KDE does things, and have customized my > Konsole environment to be attuned to the fact that I may be logged into > various machines remotely. I've written this nice login script that > changes the Konsole Schema on the fly when I log into a remote machine > or even when I run Emacs, and changes it back when I'm done. I'm a > stickler for this because too many times in the past I've accidentally > shut down a production server when I meant to shut down my local > machine! > > I suppose it's possible to do something similar on the Mac, but have not > had the time to figure it out. BTW, if anyone's interested in my > automatic Konsole Schema switcher, let me know and I'll make it > downloadable somewhere. There are other examples of this already > available, though. > > I do have one nit about Konsole -- whenever I add a new Schema, it seems > to get confused with schemas it's already using and typically will > display the wrong one. Anyone know of how to get around that? > > I must confess that 70-90% of my productive KDE use is as a glorified > console manager. The other windows usually have Emacs running in > them! :-) > > While we're pounding the pavement with personal preferences and > opinions, perhaps we can get into a Emacs vs. vi debate. I'm a definite > Emacs person and love having some of its advanced features available > when I need them. I know systems types like vi better, but since I have > to do *some* systems, I always try to install Emacs when I can, and only > use vi when I have no option. > > I love Emacs' language modes and wouldn't know how to get along without > them. :-) Also, Emacs used to be lauded as a "resource hog" -- but that > was in the days when a Megabyte of RAM was "the sky". Today, I find > Emacs to be far less resource intensive than, say, Eclipse. I used to > play around with Eclipse and other major IDEs in the not-too-distant > past, and I always find they tend to get more in the way than they help, > though they can be VERY helpful with class browsing -- which was the > main feature I used them for. Debugging was a mixed bag-- and in many > cases the debug mode would introduce effects not present during normal > runtime. I find that I can tailor Emacs to do what I want; not what the > IDE wants, and that other IDEs tend to be more limited on the > configurability side of things. > > -Fred
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