For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression

Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by alxlaz on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:58AM (#22890024)

That's the FVWM window manager. His FVWM config (or at least some version of it) is available if you're curious: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs/.fvwm2rc .

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by sasaf5 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:27AM (#22890380)

Thanks so much for this link! It also explains what I am seeing in that picture:

"Now comes the fun part: Buttons to push that will take me from one desktop to another.

Being a control freak, I am not trusting FvwmButtons to find the correct button layout; I'm building it myself. The goal is to have a 64x64 ASClock at the upper right, preceded by four 32x32 buttons that will aim my display at another desktop, all above a 16x128 CPU load display. Geometry-wise, I consider it to be an 8x5 grid of 16x16 squares (although I could have regarded it as a 4x5 grid of 32x16s)."

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by smabie on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:24AM (#22897196)

Man, he's really bought in to that whole literate programming thing..

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by ISL on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:58PM (#22891320)

That's the most-pleasant .rc file I've ever read.

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by lepasana on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:11PM (#22892995)

Thank you for this..

When I see the picture in the article, I was wondering what kind of editor he is using

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by apricot on Friday April 17, 2020 @09:53PM (#22904683)

Damn, even his .rc files are a joy to read.

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