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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
> 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.
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
> > -----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
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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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> -Keith Bostic
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