From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 17:02:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC43E37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:02:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.zoper.com (216.93.178.62.beta.zettai.net [216.93.178.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F06943FBD for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list@zettai.net) Received: (qmail 14094 invoked by uid 7794); 1 Aug 2003 00:02:12 -0000 Received: from list@zettai.net by mail.zoper.com by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 20030522. spamassassin: 2.55. Clear:SA:0(-5.8/5.0):. Processed in 1.409978 secs); 01 Aug 2003 00:02:12 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.8 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (list@zettai.net@200.71.32.6) by 0 with SMTP; 1 Aug 2003 00:02:10 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.6 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:02:31 -0500 From: george donnelly To: Benjamin Walkenhorst , FreeBSD Q's Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: emacs - gnu, x ...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 00:02:37 -0000 [Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote (krylon@gmx.net) on 7/31/03 6:44 PM] > If you want a GUI, try GNU Emacs or XEmacs. I prefer GNU Emacs, but I sug= gest > you try both (if you are looking for a GUI). > If you don't want a GUI, and if you are not looking for Emacs' massive > extensibility, there are several curses-based "lookalikes" of Emacs, that > share Emacs' look and feel, but do not feature its lisp interpreter, and = thus > much of its extensibility; on the other hand, they tend be more... > ressource-friendly than emacs. Among these smaller versions I know of zil= e > (zile is lossy emacs) and =B5emacs (micro emacs), though I have tried neith= er. thanks for the feedback. gui is not important, i guess i'm just looking for the neat features that everyone talks about - and with a minimum of resourc= e usage as i would like to install it on a webserver as well so clients can use it over ssh. <--> george donnelly ~ http://www.zettai.net/ ~ "Quality Zope Hosting" Shared and Dedicated Zope Hosting ~ Zope Servers ~ Zope Websites Yahoo, AIM: zettainet ~ MSN: zettainet@hotmail.com ~ ICQ: 51907738