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So, is ConnectedText really dead now?
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Posted by Lothar Scholz
Mar 7, 2018 at 04:28 PM
For the software it means that it would require a lot of refactoring before he can continue to develop it.
It’s obvious that he uses Microsoft MFC as a development toolkit which is unfortunately not the easiest to refactor and microsoft makes it very clear that it’s an end of line technology. Even open sourcing wouldn’t help here to win developers who want to work on it.
One more problem with refactoring is not only the financial/time investment but in case of a one person project maybe even more important: motivation. You just get a burnout when working too long on some projects.
Posted by Larry Kollar
Mar 11, 2018 at 09:23 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
I give. What does this mean?
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>Robert Luke wrote:
>s/if the question software/if the software/
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It’s the command to change text with certain Unix text editors (ed, sed, vi). In this context, it’s a shortcut way of saying “remove the word ‘question’ from what I said earlier.”
If you have MacOS or Linux, you have ed built-in, and it can be the core of a distraction-free writing system. I wrote a blog post about it a while back:
http://www.larrykollar.com/technology/2017/06/27/distraction-free.html
Doze used to have EDLIN, which is similar in many ways, but it’s not included in the latest versions (I use W7 at work, and it’s not there). If you have an older version kicking around, you might be able to copy it over.