From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 27 23: 0:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk (funbox.demon.co.uk [158.152.85.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BC4615A47 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:00:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk) Received: from funbox.demon.co.uk, ID 38913B93-042D, Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:47:47 UTC To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk (do not use this address) X-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:47:47 +0000 Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <38913B93.042D@funbox.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 06:47:47 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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, > >). 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ please reply to: t i m . j @ f u n b o x . d e m o n . c o . u k ======================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message