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First: Editors
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Gary seems to have some sort of super-huge issue with text editors, especially
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vi. He believes emacs is okay, not from personal experience but from what heard
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about psgml. Cut it out! If you want to start editor holy wars, I'm sure there's
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an appropriate newsgroup. The point is this: as long as your sgml is decent,
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your writing is decent, and you're technically accurate, I don't care what you
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wrote it with. For all I care, you can type up your doc with a typewriter and
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use ocr to get it into ones and zeros. Gary uses WP for Windows. Personally, I
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would never in a million years consider it for sgml editing, but (here's the big
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concept :) I don't care if he wants to use it. Some people live in emacs, and
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that's okay too. Ya wanna write a HOWTO in dos edit? I _don't_ care. If you want
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to make light-hearted jibes about other editors, that's fine too. Different
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people work in different ways, and different editors accomodate their work best.
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Some people work in vi. Get over it.
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Second: Searching
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Gary's issue with editors, in some vague sgml-works-in-mysterious-ways sort of
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thing, is that he believes that searching problems are caused by users of text
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editors. Gary Preckshot doesn't know a thing about sgml searching. Neither do I.
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That's the point! SGML searching involves first buiding an sgml parser (from
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what I understand, a very difficult task) and then doing something intelligent
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with the parsed data (getting computers to do intelligent things can be
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difficult ;). Gary, unless you've been doing a very good job hiding your
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intricate knowledge of sgml parsers and searching, don't make a big deal about
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it. I haven't and won't say much about searching because I don't know much about
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it. If you want to learn something about the subject, you might crack open the
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third volume of Donald E. Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. If you can
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even understand the first three sections, I will forever bow to your immense
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knowledge of searching.
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Third: Geekness
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I am a self-acknowledged geek. It's something I'm proud of. For Gary Preckshot,
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this seems to present a problem. I disagree. Our task is to write documentation
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about a robust/complicated OS and its associated tools. To do this we must
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possess a good deal of technical (and, incidentally, verbal) competence. Our
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technical competence is probably in varying areas, but it's definitely there.
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When I read the ipchains howto, I can tell that the author has set up a firewall
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or two in his time, and that's a _good_ thing. Does this make him (or any of us)
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a geek? Probably, depending on how you define "geek". The point is, we are
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technically competent people. Let's be proud of it.Fourth: Gary PreckshotI'm
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trying to keep my flamethrower in the closet (honest! :), so I won't really
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shouldn't say much. Open source (and by extension, open documentation), is a
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meritocracy. It's all about finding the best code (docs). Endless streams of
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criticism don't make the kernel any faster; neither do they make make the LDP
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any more informative.
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Well, that was more like my whole checking account than my two cents, but there
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you have it. Talk amongst yourselves...
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