grad school / openbsd / editors

[Mark Szidik]

On 12 Mar 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> So I went to the University of Michigan last Saturday to check
> out their computer science PhD program.  It turned out to be very
> cool, very exciting.  (More on this in my kuro5hin diary if you
> care.)

Does this mean that Stanford is out?

>
> There's one group out there that I'm hoping to work for if I
> decide to go to U-M.  They do very cool hacking and research on
> Linux--but their primary platform is OpenBSD.


I have always been interested in OpenBSD, but have never had the
time/energy to install it.  Would you consider a short discussion at a
GLLUG meeting about the obvious differences between OpenBSD and a Linux
distro?


> This means that I need to learn more about BSD.  So on Sunday, I
> installed OpenBSD on my extra box (pfaffben-2), and I'm learning
> vi.  Yes, I said it, I'm learning vi (vim actually).  Via full
> immersion at that: I'm using it to do all of my non-email related
> editing (I really can't imagine quitting Gnus.)  It is *so*
> painful learning a new editor.  It is worse than using a
> different keyboard.  Thank ${DEITY} for multi-level undo.
>
> Anyway, have some sympathy for me.


I know what you mean by it being painful to learn a new editor.  I once
tried to learn Emacs.  :-)


-Mark
A happy vim user.