Re: Dynamically Enable Xwindows?

jKILLSPAM.schipper@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On the other hand, Firefox's time-to-patch is excellent. And when it
does have bugs, at least they are in places where one might expect them.
(And not, say, a media format that allows arbitrary code execution
pretty much as a design feature, if I've understood the issue correctly.)

D'oh! The active desktop again... ;-)

Agreed, patched releases of Firefox are available as soon as a problem
is discovered; and bugs affect the browser only as we would expect.
Firefox can have bugs, but at least it has a good design that maintains
these bugs under control.

Bugs can be found on places that are difficult to believe. I suppose
that the bug you patched is related with the permissions or owners of
files created using that editor. :-)

The bug I patched had to do with modelines being able to specify
external commands for actions such as diff, I believe.

Indeed, a feature of vi(1), and vim(1), is the ability of the editor
to call external filters. I use these features to format some parts
of my documents. Certainly patching other files is something the
editor should never try. ;)

I usually prefer staying at the software provided with the operating
system. vim has a lot of nice extensions to vi, indeed, there is some
people here, in the Department of Mathematics, using vim and it can be
certainly highly customized (e.g., for TeX), but I prefer staying at
something that is portable to any computer running Unix (i.e., plain vi).
If it means "software written by the BSD development teams" (either
FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD)... excellent! I usually trust on the
software maintained by these teams. In any case, I try to minimize
the amount of external software added to the system.

Me too, but some additions are just too useful not to make. For
instance, on a desktop-ish computer, I'll be quite annoyed without mutt,
vim (for syntax highlighting), tin, ion (if using X - it's the favourite
du jour), and a capable browser (w3m, dillo, and/or Firefox). Plus some
readers for various formats (gv, xpdf, antiword, ...), and you've
already added quite a bit of software.

Add niceties like xplanet and aterm; some occasionally used programs,
like gimp and nmap; some stuff to toy with, like php (for syntax
checking, mostly), postgresql-client, and a couple of libraries; and you
can imagine that I find a default environment a little too spartan.
Though I can work in it, of course.

:-)

Well, an operating system is a platform to run the software we need!

I agree with you, for me a good TeX distribution, a browser, OpenMOTIF,
and nmh are required components for a workstation. tin is my favourite
mail reader too, I never get accustomed to other mail readers... MetaPost,
for mathematical figures, and xfig are valuable tools too... and for
network simulations, ns.

Cheers,
Igor.
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