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Author Topic: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix  (Read 7575 times)

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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2006, 11:55 AM »
don't we all love clippy  :wallbash:

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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2006, 11:56 AM »
 :-* OpenOffice :-*

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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2006, 01:32 PM »
 ;D:Thmbsup:

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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2006, 02:41 PM »
If OpenOffice wasn't so goddamn slow >_< - office2000 (without clippy installed) for teh win!
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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2006, 02:50 PM »
Haha, god what an awful idea that was. But then I've known people who actually kind of liked it. Eek!

OpenOffice *is* too damn slow. *sigh* Is there any hope?

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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2006, 04:12 PM »
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Looks like a re-ellaboration (ripoff?) of vigor:
http://vigor.sourceforge.net/
http://vigor.sourcef...rge.net/screenshots/

Note that it is a geeker clip, it has glasses :)

The parody...!: "are sure you want to move left?" Wasn't clippy always asking for confirmation of very obvious things?

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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2006, 04:59 PM »
I kind of liked the cat from Office XP...the one that uses your documents as a scratching post.

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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2006, 06:32 AM »
I never understood the paranoia with Clippy - it takes about 2 mouse clicks to permanently turn it off !

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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2006, 06:38 AM »
I never understood the paranoia with Clippy - it takes about 2 mouse clicks to permanently turn it off !
-Carol Haynes (July 24, 2006, 06:32 AM)
Could you make a for-dummies guide with screenshot captor on how to do it?

It's really easy and convenient to disable the fscker permanently at install time, but if he's not gunned down there, my experience is he keeps popping up >_<
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Re: hahahaah - what if microsoft clippy was in vim editor for unix
« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2006, 06:41 AM »
In Office XP right click on Clippy select options and uncheck "Use the Office assistant" and you'll never see him again. When you use help in future (F1) it just opens the normal help window.