Simple editor for X: Users' Guide - chapter 5
Editor wars
An editor is one of the tools a programmer uses most, so any
problems with the editor are going to irritate her more than those
with any other programs. The result is fierce editor wars wherever
programmers meet.
I'd appreciate it if any SeX users wouldn't endorse SeX in an
editor war. If you can't stay out altogether, please follow the
following tactic:
- When you wish to make other people envious, because
you use SeX, eat some ice cream.
- If this doesn't help, eat some more ice cream.
- If you still aren't satisfied, buy some
more ice cream, and post a message that says
``SeX is good, because I can eat so much ice
cream.''. You can also point people at the
SeX homepage,
http://www.iki.fi/liw/SeX/
.
This should be your only public response. Then eat
the ice cream.
- If you still want to continue, you'll know
what to do with ice cream number four.
- Any ice creams after this are still number four.
(If you use four fingers for counting, you can use the thumb
to hold an ice cream cone. People who have SeX don't want to
count very far.)
- You shouldn't start a war just for ice cream.
If you can't find any editor wars, you are still allowed
to eat ice cream. It's OK to eat ice cream at every
occasion. Ice cream is good. Ice cream is cool. Ice
cream makes you a better person. You might want to
avoid eating ice cream at the funeral of someone who
died in a snow storm, though.
If you can't or don't want to eat ice cream,
you are allowed to use an alternative tactic: subliminal
messages. Ask a harmless, innocent question, but phrase
your it so that the first three words begin with S, e, and X,
respectively. For example:
Somebody, everybody (Xerxes?), where can I find the latest
version of vim?
That's not quite as fun as eating ice cream, of course.
For a nice portion of ice cream, use the following recipe:
0.5 l of vanilla ice cream
1 banana
2-4 peach halves (from a tin)
enough whipped cream
enough chocolate sauce
enough caramel sauce
1 spoonful strawberry jam
3-5 cookies
You need a big plate. Put ice cream on plate. Cut banana
into thin slices (about 2 mm), place all over ice cream. Cut
peach halves in smallish pieces, put on ice cream. Put whipped
cream over everything. Pour the sauces over the cream. Put a
jam in the middle and cookies along the sides. Eat at once,
preferably in good company (share portions as you wish).
Note that ice cream should be allowed to melt so that it isn't
too hard when it is eaten. But it must still be cold. Liquid
ice cream is too warm.
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