10 Apr
2022
10 Apr
'22
12:05 a.m.
John Cowan wrote in
<CAD2gp_RsFWGUtj-9QDKSG3h8Otxb0ZY5M7G00ZAjV=dKEg+Rsw(a)mail.gmail.com>:
|On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 7:53 PM Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
|If you never ring the bell in the editor, the issue never comes up, the
|> code is simpler, and there's less to understand.
|
|Well, yes. And by the same token, you can eliminate the complexities of
|i18n by having only one diagnostic, namely "?" (or by pretending all the
|world is anglophone).
|
|But setting aside for the moment this style of argumentation, let's
|consider directory colorization. I have no dog in this fight, as I set all
|my terminals to black-on-white as God and Gutenberg intended, and set TERM
Johannes Gutenberg? The bible was in parts red-on-white at least,
and had beautiful coloured paintings, too. (They did not know
about the communist Charlie Chaplin and his Modern Times by then.)
...
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)