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- From: titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 09:07:10 GMT
- Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Lines: 35
- Message-ID: <1ed13uINNmss@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- References: <1ea4p5INN5hg@manuel.anu.edu.au> <1992Nov17.162129.18685@ugle.unit.no>
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- X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user on Coombs at ANU. The
- opinions expressed are those of the user and not necessarily
- those of the Australian National University.
-
- gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- >titus chiu (titus@coombs.anu.edu.au) wrote:
- >: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- >:
- >: >from samson, vi (which is the silly editor tin uses on unix1) does no longer
- >: >recognize the cursor keys, and editing anything is impossible. I can at best
- >:
- >: just because you don't know how to use vi doesn't make it silly, and i dont
- >: see why anybody would want to know how you telnet from one place to another
- >: on irc anyway.
- ^^^
- my mistake, i meant to say alt.irc
-
- >Vi is awful anyhow, with a load of escape key commands. I mean seriously:
-
- Just because you cannot comprehend a 'load of escape key commands' does
- not make an editor awful or silly, you are of course entitled to your
- opinions. I can understand now why you have not listened to herm's warning
- on the faults of your bot, you cannot comprehend it.
-
- >Escape x for delete? It's rediculous. And I wan't telnetting from irc, but
-
- u could actually do dd for delete line, dw for delete word and just x for
- delete char.
-
- >Gard - say ... to ...
-
- titus
- !titus! Say NO to unattended bots
- !herm*! Jup!@#!
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