On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 04:25:28PM -0500, Jorge Santos wrote: > > > Unless of course you use vi... > > > > Ding! :) > > > > email: mutt > > news: nn > > editor: vim > > Mind you, you could ditch those three, and just use (X)Emacs with > Gnus, you'd also get a ton more, when you start using Emacs, you
I could... but then I like the interface. Esp nn's for news. Also I prefer to stick to 1 tool-1 use type of thing and then put things together. (this kind of modularity rocks my world :) Also, it means I can go to any box, install say mutt and vim and only wind up installing a few meg worth of stuff to get a familiar interface rather then: [14:56:40] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root>> apt-get install gnus Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: emacs20 emacsen-common The following NEW packages will be installed: emacs20 emacsen-common gnus 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/10.3MB of archives. After unpacking 31.5MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n :) (and yes, trying hard not to start a holy war :) just stating my preference and reasons for it. you go your own way :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *** Jenna has joined the channel. <cat> speaking of mental giants.. <Jenna> me, a giant, bullshit <Jenna> And i'm not mental - An IRC session, 20/12/2000