Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:21:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems Message-ID: <199810261921.LAA00466@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:52:12 EST." <199810261552.KAA18400@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 13:40:20 -0700, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> said: > > > If the machine is "stripped down", then you sure don't want Emacs on it. > > Try one of the lighter clones, and save yourself the worry. > > Nonsense. If you want Emacs, you want Emacs, not some poor imitation. > This has nothing to do with whether the machine is ``stripped down'' > or not. The point being, of course, that what Dan wants is a text editor, and preferably one that is sufficiently similar to emacs that the hardwiring in his fingers will still work. My argument was that he was confusing this with wanting Emacs, which is a common mistake. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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