On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:41:46PM -0500, Yaron wrote: >I'm not really an editor zealot. I use VI a hell of a lot more than I use >xemacs, when you get right down to it, and I think knowing how to use VI >is really, really important to anyone doing anything with UNIX. No, emacs sucks. Everyone who uses emacs should be banished to a far away place with no bandwidth. Emacs users are bad people. BAD I SAY. > >The thing about XEmacs is you really don't need to learn much - the whole >Insert-Mode/Command-Mode thing isn't there, there are pulldown menus and >you can use the mouse for cut/paste stuff. Of course, you CAN learn the >leyboard shortcuts. You _can_ go Ctrl-X Ctrl-S to save, but you can also >click on the Save icon or chose File|Save from the menus. My wife's been >using XEmacs for a few years (under Windoze too) and hasn't bothered to >learn ANY keyboard shortcuts, nor needed them apparently. > >As for LISP, Emacs and XEmacs pretty much have builtin LISP interperters. >You can totally interact and extend XEmacs with LISP. > >Then again I don't know LISP, and I only fire up Xemacs when I want to >edit multiple files or want pretty syntax hilighting and auto intenting. > >-Yaron > >-- > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011018/873e5444/attachment.pgp