All,
GDC CD’s have come in and I will be sending these out ASAP to all who requested them. Thanks!
-Chris
Cool, can’t wait 
Whoohoo!
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beauty
This is what you miss if you don’t visit this forum in a week :-[
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Is it at all possible to put in a order for a CD now?
[quote]We had a second batch done, so plenty to go around. Send mailing information to chris@java-gaming.org and we’ll get them out shortly.
Thanks!
-ChrisM
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I know that doesn’t answer the question (esp. because the post was from almost two months ago), but in case you want to give the order a try, that’s how you would do it.
Um… has anyone received one yet? ???
nope … but snailmail from the US may take some days…
s/days/weeks
Thanks for the info! Will send an email straight away.
[quote]s/days/weeks
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Can anyone decipher that msg?
Oh and in case anybody cares, I haven’t gotten mine yet either.
I guess you’ve never used vi, the one true text editor :), that command would change the word days into the word weeks, making the original comment
nope … but snailmail from the US may take some weeks…
Endolf
[quote]I guess you’ve never used vi, the one true text editor :), that command would change the word days into the word weeks
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I guess that explains why vi is obsolete
These days we have GUIs where the fields ‘search for’ and ‘replace with’ are clearly labeled (and it would take the same number of keystrokes)
Right, but when accessing my boxes at remote sites, running X, or VNC, or in really bad cases, remote desktop, is an awful lot slower than running vi :), I’d like to see what happens when you run one of these fancy gui things over a mobile phone link ;D
Endolf
[quote](and it would take the same number of keystrokes)
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I strongly disagree! But in the interests of not derailing the topic I’ll just leave it at that! 
Let me demonstrate…
jEdit:
CTRL-f (1)
days (4)
TAB (1)
weeks (5)
ALT-a (1)
Esc (1)
Total keystrokes = 13
vi:
s (1)
/ (1)
days (4)
/ (1)
weeks (5)
(1)
Total keystrokes = 13
maybe +1 if you had to hit Esc to get into the bogus ‘command mode’ from insert mode or something.
So I stand by my statement. The vi interface offers no value and only serves to obscure. the only good thing about it is that it is still around for people that had the misfortune of memorizing the ridiculous manner in which it works - for them it is good because they know how to use it and can therefore use it faster than something that they are less familiar with.
Er… sorry about the threadjack though.
well, you could count ‘ctrl-f’ and ‘alt-a’ as 2 keystrokes each … ;D
I agree, it’ two key presses, so even with the esc key in vi, your one key press less needed :), and I still think the best reason in this day and age is when using it over a remote connection, I’d never use a gui to edit the config files on the server in the US I prod at, but I use vi all the time on it :).
Endolf
I have two coffee mugs: one with vi and another with emacs commands
Kind of an early online help…
[quote]Let me demonstrate…
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Since you ask…
In that specific case, jEdit and Vim require pretty much the same number of keystrokes - there are a couple of extra keys on either side, but it’s pretty even. I think there’s some benefit to having everything in one place as opposed to scanning a dialogue for the options you want, but we’ll ignore that.
However, how many keystrokes will it take jEdit to remove all blank lines in a file? This is something I frequently have to do, cleaning up double-spaced text, or even just compacting code or XML down so it’s easier to read. I’m guessing it’ll take more than 9 keys.
You’ve got a numbered list in a text document, and want to insert a new item between 6 and 7. And there are 400 entries. How many keys would it take you to fix this? With Vim it’s 8 keys to set up, and then you hold down @@ until you hit the end of the file. Sweet.
I’ve used so many different editors, but I keep coming back to Vim. I’ll use the Eclipse editor to edit code, but when I need a bit more power Vim is only two clicks away.