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OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Mar 30, 2007 3:00 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released by amarjan
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

OpenOffice, SchmopenOffice! Do it using GROFF macros edited in vim!


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OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Mar 30, 2007 3:39 UTC (Fri) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]

Your post reminded me of one of the math professors here (at UC Berkeley), who writes all of his papers using his own locally enhanced version of troff (he started using it before Knuth wrote TeX). He is also a vi (not vim!) wizard, and has the most complicated macro system I have ever seen for doing things like using vi as his mail client.

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Mar 30, 2007 8:35 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Uh. That's not `using vi as the editor for his mail client', right?

He's actually doing mailbox parsing, header layout and pipe-to-sendmail *in vi*?

(Ye gods.)

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Mar 30, 2007 20:48 UTC (Fri) by eklitzke (subscriber, #36426) [Link]

It's vi in conjunction with the mail command (remember, it's possible to execute external commands from within vi).

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Mar 31, 2007 14:09 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Bah, I was hoping it would be executing /usr/sbin/sendmail directly ;)

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