From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 26 07:51:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA19079 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 07:51:18 -0800 Received: from po7.andrew.cmu.edu (PO7.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.107]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA19072; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 07:51:15 -0800 Received: (from postman@localhost) by po7.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA08421; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 10:51:04 -0500 Received: via switchmail; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 10:51:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from pcs21.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 10:50:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from pcs21.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 10:50:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from mms.4.60.Jan.26.1995.18.43.47.sun4c.411.EzMail.Phred.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.pcs21.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c.411 via MS.5.6.pcs21.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c_411; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 10:50:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 10:50:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503260516.WAA29309@trout.sri.MT.net> References: <199503260516.WAA29309@trout.sri.MT.net> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-hackers: 25-Mar-95 Re: httpd as part of the sy.. by Nate Williams@trout.sri. > I'm pretty sure VM-mode in XEmacs can do it. And, XEmacs 19.12 (due out > RSN I hear) will also have tty support, so you can use it in X mode > and/or character mode. XEmacs is a very nice extensible editor, mail > reader, news reader, spell-checker, and whatever else you can think. > > We're getting closer to booting kernel.el all the time. :-) Ugh, please don't make emacs part of the standard distribution, let alone XEmacs. There are those of us who really don't feel like wasting 20 megs of local space (or whatever it takes) for a product that we don't use. As for a standard mail package, Pine seems like the obvious answer to me. It generally seems to be the easiest package to use and is fairly full featured. alex