Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:47:47 +0000 From: dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk (do not use this address) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <38913B93.042D@funbox.demon.co.uk>
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Jonathon wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> >on the subject of books, has anyone read the O'Reilly
> >Emacs book? ("Learning GNU Emacs", ISBN 1-56592-152-6,
> ><http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnu2/>). Is it worth buying? I
>
> Well, from what i have heard and read, this book is supposedly great.
> I was thinking of getting it myself.
I think it's very good rather than 'great'.
IMO, trouble with [X]emacs is that you end up writing quite a bit of
code to customise it, and personally I find other scripting languages
(Perl, TCL, Python) more congenial than [e]lisp. These days I use
my own editor, written in TCL (expectk, actually).
But I still think that emacs is quite a nifty system... Were it not
for 'screen', I'd probably still be coding up the odd bit of elisp.
-- Tim Jackson
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