I appreciate all the good information y'all are sharing. I only have about an hour a day to work on my Mac migration, and it would creak along a lot more slowly if I didn't have your brains to pick.
At 12:52 PM 11/22/2002 -0800, David Wheeler wrote: >On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 12:44 PM, William H. Magill wrote: >>I'll have to experiment a bit, but I normaly use emacs as shipped with OS X >>-- mainly because as a long time emacs user, I much prefer the "standard" GNU >>emacs command set to Xemacs' implemenation. The two are NOT the same! > >FYI, the Carbonized Emacs *is* GNU Emacs. See > > http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/ Yes, it behaves very much like the gui-ized emacs I have on my Windows system. The two big advantages over the one shipped with OSX is that the carbon version has menus and comes with the meta key set to the option key. If you're an old-time emacs user, you probably use the escape key, so you wouldn't care. In perl mode, carbon emacs uses different colors for different types of terms,(Windows Emacs does this as well), useful for spotting lexical errors on the fly. Carbon emacs also comes with tetris and a geeky version of adventure. Emacs is definitely a superior environment for the perl debugger, but I found three shells (two for vi sessions and one for the perl debugger) almost as handy. The perl.com error message page has gotten a lot better since the last time I visited. It now offers useful advice on handling the more cryptic error messages. Heather Madrone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.madrone.com Reality: deeper than I dreamed.
