Is this list alive

[der.hans]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Ken Bowley wrote:

> Dumb question, but I figure I might as well ask.  Is there any limit to the
> type of developement related questions that should be asked here?  Or is
> everything from shell scripting to assembly open for discussion here?

Not a dumb question. It's relevant, except we want to keep it open. As far
as I'm concerned everything's open. The semi-automatic web project is
going to be perl or shell scripting and none of it should be very
difficult. Asking for help building a spam-bot, however, probably won't go
over well ;-).

> Does that mean that we get to privately flame every person that writes
> a "this is just a test, please ignore" message to this list?

That's always an option, just remember to to flame anyone vastly larger
than you :).

> I've got some more coding to do on a full screen editor for MBSE. (an
> old style BBS system for Linux)  The author doesn't know much about
> coding editors, and neither do I, but I need something to write
> messages with besides a simple line editor.  :)

The only help I an provide there is to suggest you look at the source for
one of the vi clones. I believe I've heard that elvis is pretty
minimalistic (not based on older, fat elvis :). Another one would be the
nano project, which is building a pico clone.

If you have absolutely nothing  to do for the rest of the year, you can
start browsing the emacs source...

ciao,

der.hans
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