Last night I decided to download jed. I thought, what the hell, I need another toy to play with.

While it's not emacs, it's danmd close. Thier is only one thing I wish it would do. Properly wrap long lines. If it would do that, I'd be one happy camper.

I've spent the last 5 hours playing with it, learning how it works. Reading the config files, and slang modules. Gaining understanding of how it works. I'm very pleased to say the least. I realy like the colors. Makes code much easyer to read. 5 hours of learning. I wish all my time was spent on such things. Sadly enough though I spend way too much of my time with pointless things that aren't going to do jack shit for me. I need to spend much more time toying with things. Kinda like years ago, when I was just getting started into the computer scene. I usto stare at my screen for hours on end, learning new things, playing with new software. Never even thinking about why, just doing it. Sometimes I truely wonder what happend to that part of me. Once in a while I get a new toy, and I just can't put it down. Try as I might, it just can't be left alone till I know how it works.

The only reason I even knew about jed, is my first experence with slackware. Jed came preinstalled with the default config. I used it, and never realy thought much about it. Hell, I could barely do anything back then. The thought never occured to me that changes would be so easy. Completely configurable. But, as of late, I've been trying to cut down on memory usage. Done a pretty good job so far, but emacs still remains. Emacs takes up about 90% of my ram when it's running. This is not acceptable, but not having any other nice text editors to use what was I to do?

I could use vi, but vi sucks. It works, quite tiny, and very fast. But I just don't like it very much. You can't do much to change the way it works. Or, if you can, I don't know about those parts yet (never realy bothered to learn how to use it much).

But, now that I've got a pretty little text editor that's quite fast, and doesn't suck memory like a bitch what's next? Oh, did I mention that it's programable too? It uses slang, similar to emacs lisp. Though diffrent enough for me to have to relearn.

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