Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:45:34 -0500 From: leegold <leegold@operamail.com> To: brownicm@prokyon.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: emacs ques and a ports ques. Message-ID: <3C4DE77F@operamail.com>
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>Just a suggestion. Forget emacs and learn vi. I think vi is easier for a new >user to get a handle on. It's always there on any UNIX-like system. It'll run >faster because it uses a lot less system resources than emacs. > yeah, I'm adequate on vi and thought I should experience Emacs, "The King of the Editors". After 10 minutes of emacs and I was beat to a pulp. I agree w/you. >Another suggestion. Since you installed all ports you probably installed >xemacs, the X version of emacs. Try to uninstall xemacs. Just a wild guess. >libXaw is a set of X widgets. Installing emacs may have linked emacs and >xemacs so that calling emacs calls xemacs. This is all pure speculation, of >course. Nope, it was emacs 20.7, I think GNU emacs. Actually I want to try Nedit. If nedit has the ":" command line like vi for regular expressions, or something like it, it'll be good. > >Good luck. > >Chris Browning >brownicm#prokyon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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