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RE: Religious wars
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Sat, 1 Apr 2000 20:43:45 GMT
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XEmacs is great AND despite what everyone thinks, you DO NOT NEED X to run
it. It automatically knows whether to do terminal or X.
Ram
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news-gateway@lugnet.com
> [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com]On Behalf
> Of Luis Villa
> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 3:16 PM
> To: lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: Religious wars
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>
> Not emacs? And not X based? Oof. That's a tough one.
> My suggestions, in order. :
> 1) Fix your X configuration and run X and Xemacs. What card
> do you run? I
> may be able to help, or at least know where to point you.
> And, Xemacs has
> nice pull-down menus :)
> 2) Learn emacs- it's painful to learn, but once you've
> figured it out, it
> is great. Try going through the tutorial (Hit control-h, and
> then a t, to
> bring it up.) Once you are done with that, print out
> refcard.ps (should
> be in one of the emacs subdirectories) as a guide.
> 3) If neither of those two appeal, try searching
http://freshmeat.net for
text editors. There aren't many out there that aren't X-based, since
those people who prefer text-based almost universally use vi or emacs.
Good luck-
Luis
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Rossz Vámos-Wentworth wrote:
> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 19:55:35 GMT
> From: Rossz Vámos-Wentworth <rossw@jps.net>
> To: lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos@lugnet.com
> Subject: Religious wars
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> I need to pick a Linux editor for legOS programming. emacs and vi suck • big
> time. Anyone have a recommendation? It can not be X windows based as I
> have not been able to get my video card configured correctly. Under
> Windows, I prefer using UltraEdit.
>
> Rossz
>
>
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| (...) Right, and in terminal mode it does still have some advantages over emacs. However, it loses the pulldown menus- which, for the newbie, are the primary advantage. -Luis (...) ---...--- "As an engineer, it's important to look yourself in the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Not emacs? And not X based? Oof. That's a tough one. My suggestions, in order. : 1) Fix your X configuration and run X and Xemacs. What card do you run? I may be able to help, or at least know where to point you. And, Xemacs has nice pull-down menus (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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