From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 26 11:22:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11024 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:22:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11016 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00466; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810261921.LAA00466@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Garrett Wollman cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:52:12 EST." <199810261552.KAA18400@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:21:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > < 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