Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 22:28:19 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emacs vs. vim & xterm vs. eterm vs. rxvt Message-ID: <14751.20563.26028.902014@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <31069243@toto.iv>
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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. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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