Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 07:28:20 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: William Freeman <wdf@picusnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace key in Vi(m) under Xterm Message-ID: <200004071428.HAA26205@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:59:51 EDT." <38EBA947.3E2F09C0@picusnet.com>
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William, I would not give up on Emacs so quickly. I run XEmacs and fire it up when I log in with no visible frames. I have the .emacs file launch gnuserv and then use gnuclient as my editor. It typically brings up a frame with the file I want to edit in under a second. XEmacs even comes with a shell script to make the edit command use gnuclient if you have a gnuserv running and xemacs if not, but I'd prefer to just have XEmacs running at boot time. I think emacs has similar capability, but I much prefer XEmacs, so I have not tried it. If you can't make emacs work, try XEmacs. But don't give up on as excellent an editor as emacs because of a problem so easily worked around. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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