[NTLUG:Discuss] X Windows Client/Server ???

[cbbrowne@godel.brownes.org]

On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 16:29:38 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>  said:
> "Alex D. Coker" wrote:
> 
> > It worked great, except I had to use 'set DISPLAY' instead of 'setenv
> > DISPLAY'.
> 
> Yeah - depends which shell you are using.  I use tcsh (MUCH nicer than
> bash et'al IMHO). Everyone I work with seems to use tcsh - so I tend
> to forget there is an alternative. (This is probably a great way to
> start a "My shell is better than your shell" flame war. :-)

I'll bet you've not used zsh...  It essentially combines many of the
best things of Bash, tcsh, and ksh, has "just about compatible" modes,
and has the ability to do wilder interactive things with globbing than
you probably ever imagined possible...

tcsh has some nifty "filename completion" and "command completion"
stuff; zsh takes that a couple steps further...

And for those that use Win32, a blast just came back from the *ancient*
past...

The text editor "Sudden View," that came out on the Atari ST at right
about the time the ST was starting to fall from grace, has just been
released for Win32.  Ten years ago, Sudden View was reviewed with the
following comment:
  "Ditch everything you know about word processing and text editors
   before you sit down with Sudden View.  It's, well, shocking.  Words
   fail to accurately describe it."

It hasn't changed much; there's still definitely nothing else that is
even faintly like it.

	<http://sudden.net/>

The phrase "It's, well, shocking." is the best turn of phrase I have
ever seen in a review, and is pretty descriptive of SV.  It was the
only program I *really* regretted losing when moving from Atari ST
to Linux.

The author would be amenable to trying to find a way to deploy on Linux,
if there be a way to make a buck on it.  It's written in Modula 2;
there seems to be a couple implementations that run on Linux, and it
might not be a nasty port to move it to Modula 3...
--
"If the future navigation system [for interactive networked services on
the NII] looks like something from Microsoft, it will never work."
-- Chairman of Walt Disney Television & Telecommunications
cbbrowne at hex.net- <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>