[NTLUG:Discuss] X Windows Client/Server ???

[Steve Baker]

cbbrowne at godel.brownes.org wrote:

> > (This is probably a great way to
> > start a "My shell is better than your shell" flame war. :-)
> 
> I'll bet you've not used zsh...

...see - I told you so!  (No - I havn't played with zsh - so I guess
I have no excuse not to.)

> And for those that use Win32, a blast just came back from the *ancient*
> past...
> 
> The text editor "Sudden View," that came out on the Atari ST at right
> about the time the ST was starting to fall from grace, has just been
> released for Win32.

Woooaaahhh!  That *is* a blast from the past.

As you say, it appeared about a month before I dumped my AtariST,
but since I was running Minix (a kind of proto-Linux), I never got
to use it.

IIRC, it was a kind of 'folding' or 'abstracting' editor that could
hide text in folds...is that it?  There is an emacs mode that can
do that - so you can fold up (for example) a large program listing
so all you can see is the function headers. Then you can click open
functions to work on them, etc, etc.

> Ten years ago, Sudden View was reviewed with the
> following comment:
>   "Ditch everything you know about word processing and text editors
>    before you sit down with Sudden View.  It's, well, shocking.  Words
>    fail to accurately describe it."

It must have been more than I remember I think.
 
> It hasn't changed much; there's still definitely nothing else that is
> even faintly like it.
> 
>         <http://sudden.net/>

...but no explanations other than - "words can't express it"...

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