From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 5:28:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 05:28:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gray.westgate.gr (gray.westgate.gr [212.205.119.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C609A37B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 05:28:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by gray.westgate.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBCDS8N18558; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:28:08 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:28:08 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: It's that time of year. GIF files. Message-ID: <20001212152808.A18511@gray.westgate.gr> References: <20001212022710.B16205@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001212022710.B16205@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:27:10AM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:27:10AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Cliff Sarginson [001212 02:13] wrote: > > > > Ok, i told him to say no to heroin etc. > > I will add GIF's to the list.. > > What else is good for animations ? > > I'm not sure how old your kid is, but if you want to dazzle him > you might want to try installing a programming langugage that makes > it easy to make graphics, something like tcl/tk or some perl > interface to graphics like perl-tk. > > Trust me, when I was 8 this was amazing stuff. :) I don't know > how much of a programmer you are if at all, but tcl/perl is not > that difficult to learn and you'll both have a good time. > > Just find an editor that's easy to use, I think vi and especially > emacs could lead a small child to tears. Try 'edit' or look > around in the ports tree for something easy to use. Very nice idea, Alfred :-) Now about that editor thing. I am definitely not trying to start another editor war here, but... I have only recently discovered that Motif is open-sourced now, and the /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/open-motif port allows one to build NEdit [a very easy and intuitive to use editor for X11]. NEdit is a very nice editor to use under X11, and it can sure help alot when one decides to learn how to program Perl and not how to program vi(1). Just my two cents, about easy to use editors. - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message