Hacker News: gilcot

New comment by gilcot in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

gilcot — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:53:42 +0000

Another loser here to second you

New comment by gilcot in "Vim 9.2"

gilcot — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:52:20 +0000

And that’s not true! He did want to keep the editor stable and available for many platforms and compatible with vi. Rejected proposals break one of these rules.

New comment by gilcot in "Vim 9.2"

gilcot — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:44:55 +0000

do you mean http://cream.sourceforge.net/

New comment by gilcot in "Vim 9.2"

gilcot — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:33:12 +0000

Merci.

New comment by gilcot in "Vim 9.2"

gilcot — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:32:15 +0000

I loved using it to write and browse my html files. It can do troff too <3

New comment by gilcot in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

gilcot — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:10:54 +0000

No, the editor is "ex" (for extended ed…) and "vi" is it's other face… (when you call vi, it’s same as calling ex then issuing :visual command…)

New comment by gilcot in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

gilcot — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:35:14 +0000

And they're "codenames" not supposed to be as obvious as names…

New comment by gilcot in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

gilcot — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:14:33 +0000

That's because "ed" was the "editor" (and that later was abbreviated "ed"…) when sed born.

New comment by gilcot in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

gilcot — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:59:51 +0000

As unique as: Go, Python, R, Rust, Word, Writer, --"

New comment by gilcot in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

gilcot — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:54:52 +0000

And before the rise of heavy IDE, you need some coffee to write all those SomeObscureWord.longLongStuf.notSoShortOne.LastSentence()

New comment by gilcot in "Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates"

gilcot — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:55:55 +0000

Do you mean doas ?

New comment by gilcot in "Vim 9.1 Released"

gilcot — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:19:10 +0000

and it's a dedicated release <3

New comment by gilcot in "Typst – Compose Papers Faster"

gilcot — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 02:28:00 +0000

Instead of comparing to LaTeX format, it should compare to ConTeXt…

New comment by gilcot in "Typst – Compose Papers Faster"

gilcot — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 02:09:23 +0000

You mean worst but successful 'cause of harsh marketing?

New comment by gilcot in "Interactive Common Lisp Development"

gilcot — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:40:37 +0000

What about Octave and R, which are open source and for $0?

New comment by gilcot in "R/programming: how a post went from 1k upvotes to a ban in 10 years"

gilcot — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:03:25 +0000

Welcome to the worm hole called Reddit...

Calculators are needlessly bad (PDF, 1999)

gilcot — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 22:33:45 +0000

Article URL: http://harold.thimbleby.net/cv/files/hucalc.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38235262

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gilcot in "Show HN: Generate pdf with gitbook or mdbook url"

gilcot — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:05:38 +0000

Does read-only mode not suffer from some global settings? Also, what happens when the reading instance doesn't have all the used fonts for example?

New comment by gilcot in "Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU's Digital Markets Act"

gilcot — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 08:36:39 +0000

I may be wrong, but I think RCS protocol is published (so Apple and any other can support it if they want) whereas the protocol for iMessage is not (so no one but Apple can make compatible app under Android)

Cyber Warfare Unveiled: The Shocking Story Behind the 2007 Estonia Attack

gilcot — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:37:40 +0000

Article URL: https://cyberdefender23.blogspot.com/2023/11/cyber-warfare-unveiled-shocking-story.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38196598

Points: 1

# Comments: 0