Going through the list of my last post to see where I stand two weeks later:
- Windows XP instead of Linux or MacOS X.
Well, based on what I try to do with the OS (nothing, just work with it), it is OK. I installed a couple of Cygwin tools and XEmacs so I'm not completely lost.
- Outlook instead of Gnus/XEmacs
Oh how I miss Gnus. Thank God I only need to use Outlook for work mail. The rest of Outlook (address book and calendar) is fine, but the mail client is a joke. Threaded views? Outlook's mail sorting rules are dumb and limited - or I am limited, I don't know. "Outlook has removed the superfluous line breaks" - oh, thanks, who said they were superfluous? And it is really really hard to create a well formated plain text response to a HTML mail.
- VS.NET instead of XEmacs.
OK, VS.NET is quite usable. I've only found myself edit sources with XEmacs seldom - rectangular selections, M-x string-rectangle and search/replace with regular expressions are what I missed so far. I have edited solution and project files with XEmacs more than once, though.
- VSS instead of CVS.
I don't believe in the "only one can edit a file at a time" model, but other than that it works. Not that I feel save.
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