From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 20:28:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-228.telepath.com [216.14.1.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1EAD37B43C for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12469 invoked by uid 100); 20 Aug 2000 03:28:19 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14751.20563.26028.902014@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 22:28:19 -0500 (CDT) To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emacs vs. vim & xterm vs. eterm vs. rxvt In-Reply-To: <31069243@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan writes: > > 1. What should I use, emacs or vim? I tried both and I can make up my mind. > > I would like to know what you guys use and what are the advantages of each > > one. > Use what you like. Do a mailing list search for examples of flamewars > about these. Personally I use vim, but that could be because having > become comfortable with it I didn't want to confront another learning > curve with emacs. Yup - it's a matter of taste. > > 2. What are the differances between xterm, eterm and rxvt? I read somewhere > > that rxvt uses less swap space. Which should I use? > rxvt seems to be the most lightweight of the three. I'm not aware > of any particular advantage xterm has over it. eterm (and > gnome-terminal etc) are flashier. But, again, use what > you like. When I looked at rxvt and eterm, none of them supported twiddling translations so I can use the keyboard to scroll through history and paste from the keyboard. It may or may not let you set character classes, which I also use. On the other hand, one or both of them let you create windows with background that are images or transparent.