World: r3wp

Sometimes you just want to type out what you want the computer to 
do......

> Tag all photos taken in Maui with "Maui"

Gregg: I was just thinking about the Arexx :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtb5EAG2gbc&NR=1

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO:


http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/24/steve_jobs_resigns_as_apple_ceo.html

The end of an era.

Probably the end of Apple as we know it

I don't think so. He still is going to be the head of the board of 
directors,no?

It means he's admitting that he's going downhill. And remember the 
organisation chart Doc found a while ago?

Yes, he is still the chairman.

What did the chart show?

A spider web, where everyone in the organisation is controlled by 
one head

That sounds like Steve Jobs.

Hopefully his health will improve over time.

I'm sure he was hoping for that in the past few years

I have heard that pancreas cancer is one of the worst cancer diagnosis, 
not curable. But of course, I wish him a recovery, who knows what's 
possible in terms of nowaday's medicine ...

I don't think he would have resigned unless doctors were now telling 
him to "get his affairs in order".

I agree - cancer can take you down really quickly sometimes. The 
federal leader of the opposition here in Canada went from winning 
second place in the election in May to succumbing to the disease 
earlier this week.

Raspberry Pi runs Quake 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI

a little lighter topic:  http://www.sublimetext.com/2

the best generic code editor ever and it's CROSS PLATFORM since the 
beginning of the year and it's beta already!

im using it for a day and no bugs so far. it costs 60 USD to get 
rid of the "buy me" dialog after every 50th save, but that's the 
only pain point, i think.

here is the list why i love it:
- knows save on focus lost

- have the intelligent filename search (with instant file preview!!!)
- can open full folders
(no need to create a project for it explicitely!!!...)
- handles proportional fonts
- handles double width characters (chinese for example)
- beautiful default color scheme with black background
- distraction free "zen" mode
- no stupid dialog box config
- cross platform; which is good because

    - i can remote control less advanced users no matter what is their 
    platform

    - i can use the same interface and shortcuts on every platform; no 
    annoyance on switching
- not extremely bloated yet...

textmate eats less memory and the initial load time is shorter, but 
it's mac only, doesnt handle double with characters and gets confused 
by the proportional font too.

+1 for Sublime Edit 2

AdrianS: do u have an updated version of the rebol syntax definition 
for it? the one i found in some article from last year doesnt seem 
to color it nicely. i can only see the strings, files colored but 
not any default words.


also what is the recommended way to prioretize the rebol syntax as 
the default over the R one?

btw, im using Verdana as the proportional font for source code. does 
anyone else have a better recommendation?

Can it do vertical/column selection?

no code folding...

but the minimap leftside looks like a nice feature. would like to 
have this with scite.

Pekr: yes, and it knows the multi-line edit too, just like textmate

TomBon: code folding would require code analysis. i don't expect 
a generic code editor go that far. if u really miss folding, go and 
suck with some bloatware IDE and suffer from all it's pitfalls...


i would rather organize my code in a way where folding wouldnt help 
much with reading...

i was looking for an editor primarily to write code, not to read 
others' crap. i forgot to tell sublime is only a good choice in this 
case

when i write rebol / bash codet, i try to stick with 1-4 lines of 
code for each function.

even in javascript i don't do over 10lines. so there is not much 
to fold on it...

onetom, well...just a moment...just sucking heavy on scite & geany 
currently all nice delivered cross-plattformed in 1.5 mb ready to 
use WITH code folding.  :-))))

url to the dmg file?

i see u were contributing to a thread which started as a "scite on 
mac" topic and turned into an "oh, wait, it's not that obvious how 
to get gtk for a mac" pondering

i don't like this kind of cross-platformenss, where u have to sweat 
blood to get something on certain platforms...

really? hmmm..mac? when? where?

i tried gedit too recently on a mac. luckily there was a binary version, 
because the compilation segfaulted... well, it's quite nice. i could 
see that as an open source alternative, but despite of the fact it's 
supposed to support utf-8, it didn't...

neither it allowed me to use chinese input method

scite is dual-platform only and geany has windows binaries only according 
to their official site.
why do u have to bullshit us saying it's crossplatform?
even this sublime thing was windows only until last year!

that was the only reason i mentioned it here, because the same version 
is available on the 3 major platforms (with proper font handling, 
unlike rebol..)

well both are win and x,  mac is no major platform. it's a toy ;-)

hja, okay, sorry... now i know why has it been made so durable... 
so kids cant break it easily... unlike the other 2 systems ;P

harr..harr..harr...YES!

you have to add my BSD to your list also or not?

thats not a separate platform, that's x... ;p

but true, it would be nice if they would support freebsd at least, 
however very little ppl use freebsd as a desktop, i would think..

then you mac isn't either...

yes, BSD is mainly server but can be a great desktop also, esp. if 
you look to your mac screen...

Some of you already found the Syllable interview I was recently asked 
to do by IDG on Slashdot. The original article is on TechWorld:

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/398891/syllable_os_developer_interview_building_better_operating_system/

The full interview is here:

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/398892/developer_q_syllable_os/