Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> On 8/4/2011 9:22, Warp wrote:
> >    Can you do it in a text terminal through ssh?

> Why the hell would I do that?

  Ah, the magic words. The always trusty answer when you can't do something.

  A simple "no" would have sufficed, you know.

> > Can
> > you run it on Windows, Linux, MacOS X, BSD, Solaris, and basically any
> > Unix-style OS in existence? Can you get that software for free?

> That wasn't the question, tho. The question the video asked is "can your 
> text editor do this"

  The video might have asked that question, not me. I was just giving an
example of why emacs has been traditionally deemed as a very powerful text
editor in the unix world.

> and then showed embedding a spreadsheet into a text 
> document and regenerating HTML from that. And the answer is "yes, my text 
> editor can do that." I mean, come on, they're showing off that they can put 
> columns in a text file that adjust to the width of the text in the column? 
> Yes, indeed, my text editor can do that.

  Are you sure you don't mean "my spreadsheet software, embedded in my
word processor, can do that" instead of "my text editor can do that"?
Not exactly the same thing.

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                                                          - Warp

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