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From: Ted Gilchrist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:00:48 -0500
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Code Editors
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The thing I like most about emacs is the notion of buffers, which gives you
a TV channel switching metaphor, as opposed to the cluttered desktop. That
plus all the customizability allows me to set up a familiar environment
wherever I have to setup shop.
But after a couple of decades (I guess I'm a slow learner) I discovered
something about Emacs that clinches it for me. This is "rlogin mode" which
more or less makes transparent your logins to other machines, meaning you
don't even have to install Emacs to bring along your quirky and
idiosyncratic environment wherever you roam. It accomplishes this trickery
by using FTP behind the scenes when you write to a remote file.
Ted Gilchrist
