[OT]: creating cheat sheets

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:03 PM, vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> On 04/26/2013 01:20 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013, Andrew Gould wrote:
>>>
>>>    My least favorite tasks at work are those that require visual appeal -
>>>    presentation slides, charts, etc.  I now have a need to create a cheat
>>>    sheet for basic Python.  (I asked NoStarch Press for a "mug of python",
>>>    but they said "no, but here's a coupon code".)
>>>    What are the best ways to create cheat sheets?  Are there tools
>>>    available that would make it easy?  Would a tool like Scribus be much
>>>    better than a word processor?
>>
>> I've always used vim and groff.
>
> Honestly I do not like vi or vim, but I often use it to the extend that
> when I am on my windows system and need some notes, I open an ssh
> session to my Linux desktop and start typing the notes using vi.
>
> Same thing with sqlplus for Oracle. Many times I have my GUI tool open
> already, I still open a separate sqlplus session to use.

sqlplus is a flaming POS.  some would argue the same is true of its creator.

>
> Using the CLI tools is a sign of getting old, I think :)

or wise