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sabrina downard skribis 2005-09-09 10:51 (-0500): > i hate logging on to a new system and having to adjust my .profile and > .exrc to override all the whiz-bang shiny defaults that all the clever > fifteen year-olds think are required. setting a path? reasonable. > setting up color defaults for everything from ls to vim to my damned > command-line prompt? knock it off! I hate logging on to a new system and having to adjust anything to get useful colours added to the output. The colours help me instantly see what's going on. In my editor, currently, your text is coloured differently from mine. I love that I never had to ask for this, as that saves me a lot of work. Tastes differ, and there's no good default when it comes to taste. And I'm not falling for the but-my-terminal-is-100-years-old-and-doesn't- render-these-things-correctly argument. By the way, vim is better than emacs, perl is better than python, KDE looks better than GNOME, MacOS-like menu bars suck and file managers must not be "spatial". Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
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