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On 2007-12-04, Rubinstein <piborg.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Rubinstein here

Hello!

> It's been a while and I've lost track somehow. Recently I tried to
> start playing on akrasiac.org and was overwhelmed by some of the new
> options, namely with and without virus. What does it mean? Search
> function here in google wasn't helpful, nor could I find something on
> http://crawl.akrasiac.org/
> From context it could be some sort of editor called 'virus', but if so
> what a name! Almost impossible to find that beast if you don't already
> know where. *evil*

It is a tiny vi-alike editor, yes. Sorry if that isn't clear; I think
there was a news post on CAO briefly that explained it in a little more
detail, but not much. Sorry about that. Maybe I should make a FAQ or
something?

> p.s. I've no more access to a real newsserver and I'm not comfortable
> with google groups. So, if there's anything wrong with my post, any
> feedback is welcome (to my mail address if you like)

It looks fine to me.

-rl.
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On 2007-12-04, Rubinstein <piborg.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 Dez., 16:29, Rachel Elizabeth Dillon <rac....RemoveThis@akrasiac.org> wrote:
>> On 2007-12-04, Rubinstein <pib....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > [about virus editor]
>
>> It is a tiny vi-alike editor, yes. Sorry if that isn't clear; I think
>> there was a news post on CAO briefly that explained it in a little more
>> detail, but not much. Sorry about that. Maybe I should make a FAQ or
>> something?
>
> The devs of virus surely have a homepage, not? Explaining other ones
> software really shouldn't be your problem. Usually I'm able to help
> myself, but just searching for 'virus AND editor' is pretty fruitless,
> though.

Yeah, I can't find it either I just used it because it came packaged
with dgamelaunch.

> The main reason for my question was probably a misunderstanding: at
> first I thought the virus option would somehow affect gameplay, but
> now I guess it's all about editing crawl.init as an alternative to vi,
> isn't it? For me it's hard to understand why there must be an extra
> option for this. But then I never quite understood why there has to be
> an editor started on server side rather than just sending a simple
> text file...

As an alternative to ee (which is more like nano or something), but yes.
The option is there because different people like different text editors;
there is nothing stopping anyone from copying their local file and
pasting it into either editor That said being able to upload a config
file would be a good idea; if it isn't already on the feature request page,
I'll add it.

The only reason that I have a server-side editor is that the software I
used to set up CAO had a server-side editor, and so that's what I did.
Because of playing on a different dgamelaunch server previously, I never
even thought of it as weird, but I guess it is a little strange...

> [OT]
> I have no controll over line wrapping in Google groups. Hope it works
> "automagically".

It seems to!

-r.
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On 4 Dez., 21:50, Rachel Elizabeth Dillon <rac....RemoveThis@akrasiac.org> wrote:
> On 2007-12-04, Rubinstein <pib....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 4 Dez., 16:29, Rachel Elizabeth Dillon <rac....RemoveThis@akrasiac.org> wrote:
> >> On 2007-12-04, Rubinstein <pib....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > [about virus editor]
>
> As an alternative to ee (which is more like nano or something), but yes.
> The option is there because different people like different text editors;
> there is nothing stopping anyone from copying their local file and
> pasting it into either editor

Yeah, that's what I did before. Not the most elegant solution, but it
works. But that's also why in the first place I didn't get the idea of
an alternative serverside editor because this always apeared to me as
the most obvious solution:

> That said being able to upload a config file would be a good idea; if it isn't already on the feature request page, I'll add it.

Great and agreed.

> The only reason that I have a server-side editor is that the software I
> used to set up CAO had a server-side editor, and so that's what I did.
> Because of playing on a different dgamelaunch server previously, I never
> even thought of it as weird, but I guess it is a little strange...

Now I understand. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
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