BSDCon photos

[Mark Valentine]

> From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd at online.fr>
> Date: Mon 22 Sep, 2003
> Subject: Re: BSDCon photos

> If you like all that, you may like links (in the ports) -- it has
> graphical as well as text-only modes, and even does some javascript I
> think

HTML without CSS is just too painful; decent graphical presentation is a
core requirement for a web browser (and no, typical web browsers aren't my
idea of a good application architecture...).

I don't use mush and trn because I dislike a GUI, but because there are no
GUI equivalents which are equally competent at their core functions and suit
my style of working.

I don't give up hope completely against finding more modern equivalents -
it's not so many years since I finally abandoned a locally hacked version
of the non-open non-portable Warwick shell for bash, once bash finally grew
enough knobs to emulate what I found was a most natural style (essentially
satisfied by tab-completion with show-all-if-ambiguous combined with
history-search-{forward,backward} bound to ^N/^P, which was the hardwired
behaviour of our hacked up wash since the mid-80s).  It was a breath of fresh
air to escape the restrictions of that old shell without losing its essential
advantages.

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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