From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jan 26 14:49:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C91001506D for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:49:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id OAA24174; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:45:09 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA13394; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:45:09 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.236]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id OAA23063; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:45:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <388F7A15.7A3E10FD@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:49:57 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/13644 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Hey Wes, nice to hear from you. :-) And you too, it's been a while. > Actually, i just started learning VI, so maybe i'll try both at the same time. > However, i haven't quite reached that level yet of being an advanced programmer. > So, many of Emacs features will be lost on me. But, it is certainly worth a try, > since someday i may need it. > > Yes, it makes more sense like you said to start a session at login and use it > throughout the session. Maybe if i buy that book it will give me incentive. If much of your work on your computer consists of editing things, Emacs is a good tool. If you edit things only occasionally, other editors may be as useful and a bit faster to load. If you use X, aXe is pretty nice and is quick enough to launch from a dock or something like that. > Do you use emacs, Xemacs, or some derivative? Version 19 or 20? I use GNU Emacs 20, mostly because my .emacs file has been customized for GNU conventions over the years. If I were starting over, I'd probably pick Xemacs instead. Most of the younger Emacs'ers around here use Xemacs. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message