Re: [GD-General] Eiffel

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:03:36 -0800 
phil wilkins <phi...@pl...> wrote:
> J C Lawrence <cl...@ka...>:

>> Yup.  I know most of it is close to 15 years old -- going back
>> almost to the old TECO days.  I thought some of the code
>> highlighting and syntax detection and such was a bit younger tho.

> Possibly, I was using a dumb terminal at the time. The only colour
> being green.

Amber!  Amber!  Green was for weenies...and don't get me started on
white.

>> Then again, why would you ever have to work on someone else's
>> machine?

> Debugging code they haven't checked in yet. Tracking bugs that
> only manifest reliably on their system. Sporadic occurences of
> pair programming.  It happens.

<shrug>

In the old days I'd use ange-ftp (Emacs package to edit remote
files, now replaced by TRAMP) and telnet/SSH for that sort of thing.
Sit on your own machine, drive their machine.  Now I use TRAMP and
SSH/XDM etc to the same end.

>> You've got the network.  Use it.

> We have a windows network. Nuff said.

Ahh.  I try to avoid those monstrosities.  

Happily Cygwin seems to do a moderately useful job of fixing them.
You get bash, an SSH daemon, Xfree86, rxvt (xterm analogue), etc.
At my last job (yeah, I'm hunting) the tool chain was Windows only
so until we got everything running under WINE under Linux (which ran
it faster than native Windows on the same box) I did all my compiles
under SSH to a Windows box.  Worked fairly nicely too.

-- 
J C Lawrence                
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