Re: Pronunciation of katakana "ou"

Ben Finney wrote:
"Tad Perry" <tadperry@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Wow. This is like a blast from the past. The last I used LaTeX was
1991. Of course, I didn't think it died just because I stopped using
it, but I never heard of it again. I thought everyone had moved on.
Certainly everyone I get work from moved on.

Moved on to what? I don't know of anything better than LaTeX for writing
complex mathematical notation in a text-only source document.

My reaction exactly.

Now, if anyone's still using vi on a serious basis that would really
surprise me.

If by “vi” you mean “original Unix vi with all the shortcomings of
original Unix vi”, then no, I don't know of anyone using that specific
program on a serious basis.

However, the vi-compatible “Vi IMproved” <URL:http://www.vim.org/> is
the program installed on most GNU+Linux systems as the “vi” command,
and is even more popular than the original. When these days people say
“I use vi”, it's pretty much guaranteed they mean Vim.

Naruhodo. I was chatting with a friend in CS at Melbourne University.
He commented that he's an emacs user, but almost all his graduate
students use vim, because that's what they use in the undergraduate
course.

Emacs, on the other hand, I really, really liked, and I hung onto it
long after anyone else was using it.

GNU Emacs is still the editor environment of choice for those with many
and varied text editing tasks that take hours at a time.

I've had a very sallies at emacs, but I keep coming back to vi and its
clones. I still use "jstevie", and the version I extended about 15
years ago to handle JIS212 is one of the only editors in the galaxy
which handle a JIS208/JIS212 mix au naturel.

Since I switched from text-based email and news clients (to Gmail
and Thunderbird) I have got a lot more used to WYSIWYG editors, but
I wish I had the same instant access to regexes, etc. I oftem find myself
hitting A, I, etc. instead of "End" and "Home".

--
Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
.

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