Per_Bothner

21 giorni fadiscuss

"Defenestrate" was not in my list, but it's a word I would have gotten, as I know it from: (1) An A.C. Clarke short story ("The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch", in "Tales from the White Hart", if I remember correctly); and (2) The Defenstration of Prague (I have visited Prague Castle - there were apparently multiple defenestrations there). It's an interestingly (amusingly?) macabre word. (It also helps that I know high-school French and German plus understand Swedish as being very close to Norwegian.)

Per_Bothner

21 giorni fadiscuss

"Frugal" most definitely does not mean "rather over the top" unless that is some new slang meaning I've never heard of.

Per_Bothner

3 mesi fadiscuss

Not always, but in this case the superior product (i.e. VHS) won. At initial release, Beta could only record an hour of content, while VHS could record 2 hours. Huge difference in functionality. The quality difference was there, but pretty modest.

Per_Bothner

4 mesi fadiscuss

Kawa predates Clojure by a decade. (Kawa work started 1996; Clojure's initial release was 2007.) Also, Clojure isn't really focused on high performance, while that has always been a priority for Kawa, which generates bytecode similar to Java, especially if you include suitable type annotations. (It is likely Clojure have have improved in this respect - they have a lot more people working on it.)

Per_Bothner

4 mesi fadiscuss

What a blast from the past! I too remember with pleasure the days working with Anthony Green (and others) at Cygnus. I like to boast that (apart from Java) Kawa Scheme is the oldest compiler-based language implementation still available for the JVM.

Per_Bothner

5 anni fadiscuss

In DomTerm, you can click to move the cursor. This is simulated by converting the click to a series a arrow-keystrokes. If you set up "shell integration" (https://domterm.org/Shell-prompts.html) it just works with a regular click (for bash, fish, or zsh). Otherwise you can can do Alt-click (to avoid risk of mass confusion if you accidentally click outide an application that can handle arrow-key movement).

Deleting selected text works if you're in line-editing mode. It could be made to work in normal char mode, but it's a bit tricky.

Setting mouse-reporting by the application (emacs, vim, mc, etc) works pretty well, but it means the application has to simulate the selection (which may or may not be integrated with the desktop selection), context (right-click) menus, etc.

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