Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:58:42 -0500 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing xemacs21 w/ minimum packages Message-ID: <20020319175842.GA31005@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20020319080130.GA16769@moo.holy.cow> <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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in message <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>, wrote Lowell Gilbert thusly... > > parv <parv_@yahoo.com> writes: > > > i want to install xemacs w/o all other junk listed in > > xemacs-packages/Makefile as all i want is an editor. what can i do > > away w/? > > All of it, I think. It looks like xemacs-packages is only pulled in > to provide the "enriched text" support. Just pull out the RUN_DEPENDS > line. You can probably pull out the graphics support, too, without > missing it. i was thinking of the same; just needed a second nod. > As a very heavy emacs user, though, I have to ask: if all you want is > basic editing functions, are you sure that you want emacs? you are quite perceptive. personally, i prefer vi(m); xemacs is for those rare occasions when people other than myself use my laptop & ask for emacs. come to think of it, editors other than vi clones should be ok too for said people. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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