From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12005 invoked by alias); 14 Feb 2008 14:36:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 11992 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Feb 2008 14:36:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ACCESS1.CIMS.NYU.EDU (HELO access1.cims.nyu.edu) (128.122.81.155) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:35:36 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by access1.cims.nyu.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1EEZXUZ018351; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:35:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:36:00 -0000 From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List To: Andrew DeFaria cc: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: tcsh clear command? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <47B21F1D.50604@cygwin.com> <010a01c86dce$b42d3010$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <018301c86e68$34090680$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List X-SW-Source: 2008-q1/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 TITTTL'ing. On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > > (<- who the hell would use that! > > > > Anyone who might ever want to pipe stdio between a cygwin and a win32 > > native program will find it works an awful lot better if they do it in > > a DOS console using CYGWIN=notty. > > Like I said - who the hell would do that! ;-) Umm, anyone working with Java? > > Also, anyone who wants the rows-and-columns based method of copying > > text, as opposed to the line-end-wrapping (X-alike) method used in the > > other consoles. > > Ditto here. Who really prefers a rows-and-columns based method (AKA a > box!) of copying text? I can't say there's been a single time when I > said "Damn I wish I could just copy and paste a box of text. Copying a > line of text just isn't what I want to do right now!". YMMV. Umm, VIm with multiple horizontal windows? Or any text containing tables? In fact, that's why VIm added the "box select" feature... > > > Yuck)? > > > > Is the implication that you are in some way magic and special and > > therefore your personal tastes are somehow objectively valid making > > you right about any random topic and anyone else who feels differently > > wrong? > > No. That's called your imagination! Well, the implication was that if *you* don't use a particular feature, it is not at all useful to *anyone*, which is plainly wrong. > > Or do you still accept that this is just a subjective expression of > > your tastes, but nonetheless feel that your opinion is of unique and > > gripping interest to readers of the list? [*] > > It was merely my opinion. Why do you attempt to make more of it? That's called arrogance... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Those saying that something cannot be done should never stand in the way of those actually doing it. -- Old Chinese proverb