Colin, et al -- Yes, this is Way Off-Topic Again, but ... ...and then Colin J. Raven said... % % On Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:00, Stewart V. Wright responded % helpfully: % % > Have you heard of this fairly newish program called Emacs? ... % % Indeed, this reader *has* heard of it, tentatively messed with it, % uttered a primal scream of complete and total frustration, exited % (with difficulty) and never touched the da[rn][mn]ed thing again. Been there! It was like being in the minotaurs catacombs. % % My objection is relatively simple (perhaps also simplistic, I'll % willingly concede that). % * emacs has an *immense* learning curve, but yet is also a % complete environment. Of course, we know that it really has a very *shallow* learning curve. So shallow it's almost flat, in fact! /me ducks for cover Have you, however, seen David W Sanderson's remind program? It's an extremely capable calendar and reminder system driven by simple text files and called at the shell level. I used to use it heavily to manage my work and class (and social, such as it existed :-) schedules as well as remember birthdays and anniversaries. It's just been put into gentoo, even, so I'll steal their description for you: > % emerge -s remind > > * app-office/remind [ Masked ] > Latest version available: 03.00.22 > Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] > Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] > Homepage: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind/ > Description: Ridiculously functional reminder program Speaking of schedules, it's time to go and get my daughters ready for school... HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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