From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 11: 1:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B48137B424 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28918 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2000 18:01:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 19 Aug 2000 18:01:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 4639 invoked by uid 211); 19 Aug 2000 18:01:33 -0000 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 23:31:32 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: sarai hefetz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs vs. vim & xterm vs. eterm vs. rxvt Message-ID: <20000819233132.A4632@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: sarai hefetz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from blonde_girl40@hotmail.com on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:46:44PM +0300 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1. What should I use, emacs or vim? I tried both and I can make up my mind. > I would like to know what you guys use and what are the advantages of each > one. Use what you like. Do a mailing list search for examples of flamewars about these. Personally I use vim, but that could be because having become comfortable with it I didn't want to confront another learning curve with emacs. > 2. What are the differances between xterm, eterm and rxvt? I read somewhere > that rxvt uses less swap space. Which should I use? rxvt seems to be the most lightweight of the three. I'm not aware of any particular advantage xterm has over it. eterm (and gnome-terminal etc) are flashier. But, again, use what you like. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message