Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:17:26 -0400 From: William Freeman <wdf@picusnet.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace key in Vi(m) under Xterm Message-ID: <38EE4255.B04D278B@picusnet.com> References: <200004071428.HAA26205@ptavv.es.net>
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--------------9049E13B1267391BF1B4C880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm not giving up so quickly. I can make Emacs do all kinds of stuff, but it's just principal Kevin Oberman wrote: > 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 -- William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com) http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W+ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP-- t++ 5-- X+++ R tv- b+ DI++++ D--- G- e- h! r-- !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --------------9049E13B1267391BF1B4C880 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> I'm not giving up so quickly. I can make Emacs do all kinds of stuff, but it's just principal <br> <p>Kevin Oberman wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>William, <p>I would not give up on Emacs so quickly. <p>I run XEmacs and fire it up when I log in with no visible frames. I <br>have the .emacs file launch gnuserv and then use gnuclient as my <br>editor. It typically brings up a frame with the file I want to edit in <br>under a second. XEmacs even comes with a shell script to make the edit <br>command use gnuclient if you have a gnuserv running and xemacs if not, <br>but I'd prefer to just have XEmacs running at boot time. <p>I think emacs has similar capability, but I much prefer XEmacs, so I <br>have not tried it. If you can't make emacs work, try XEmacs. But don't <br>give up on as excellent an editor as emacs because of a problem so <br>easily worked around. <p>R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer <br>Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) <br>Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) <br>E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634</blockquote> <pre>-- William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com) <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU">http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU</A>; -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W+ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP-- t++ 5-- X+++ R tv- b+ DI++++ D--- G- e- h! r-- !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------</pre> </html> --------------9049E13B1267391BF1B4C880-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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