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Re: Some wierd emacs/lisp/xwindows stuff

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From: Mike G.
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:00
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carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU (Adam Carheden):
> What  are you talking about emacs RULES!  Once you learn it, anything
> else is intollerable (well, vi is good if you want to do it quick and
> dirty).  And as for lisp, there's lot's of ways to do it, but they
> aren't explained in class, so by the time I figure out how to do lisp, I
> have no time to actually do the assignment!
> -- 
> Adam Carheden
> carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU

Possibly it rules for you , which is great.  Yet, I fail to see any reason to
have an editor, broswer, email client, and whatever else emacs is in one
package.  Whereas, vim contains all the features I need, and can be put on a
floppy (gotta have an editor in win* too).  Whereas, emacs-20.3-3 would take
57.5798611111111 floppies (ok, 58).  Actually, I'm not even sure if this is the
entire package.  I know I removed four of five *emacs* packages earlier, wonder
how this one snuck by.
du -k `rpm -ql emacs-20.3-3` | perl -lane '$sum+=@F[0];print $sum/1440;' && 
rpm -e emacs-20.3-3

But, I suppose you've got the best of both worlds, since you use both.  But,
I'd be interested in hearing what emacs does for you that vim fails to outside
of hard to reach control characters and memory consumption.

Mike
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From: tcsh@holly.colostate.edu (Mike G.)
Subject: Re: Some wierd emacs/lisp/xwindows stuff
Date: 1999/03/18
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