dmd platform support - poll

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
>> news:gj9cq1$1boc$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Brian wrote:
>>>>> I'm incredibly jealous of how Vista only highlights the filename 
>>>>> (minus
>>>>> suffix) when you go to rename a file. I *really* want that.
>>>> So does thunar :)
>>> Konqueror, too. But of course that would be too little a reason to 
>>> make the switcharoo.
>>>
>>
>> While the file rename thing is one of the nitpicky annoyances I have 
>> with the standard Windows file managers (though I never knew it 
>> annoyed me until Vista came along ;) ), I've have just as many 
>> nitpicky issues with OSX's Finder and all of the *n*x (Is that the 
>> politically-correct way to refer to Unix/Linux/BSD/etc? Some people 
>> can be real touchy about that) file managers I've tried. Not that I'm 
>> trying to single out any particular OS or file browser for ridicule, 
>> though. 
> 
> Most people say *nix for Unix/Linux. BSD is Unix, so no need to specify 
> that separately. You could single out Minix, though.
> 
> And I usually use bash as my file manager, but it isn't great for that. 
> Decent, but not great.

Command line is definitely more powerful than any GUI shell (I use and 
would recommend zsh) - of course after you took the time to learn it. 
It's like using a language versus navigating canned forms.

Andrei