Re: emacs or xemacs ?
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:32:22PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > > > > On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > where can I found a document describing the differences between emacs > > > and xemacs ? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > Check the XEmacs web page: http://www.xemacs.org/ > > > > You might also look at the Emacs web pages: Official: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html Unofficial: > > http://www.emacs.org/ > > I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to know: Is > there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why? > > - Kris > > > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > I prefer XEmacs to Emacs because of several features. I find configuring it is easier, since it has most of the customization options available under a menu. Also, it seems like the program is more oriented towards use under X, taking advantage of the mouse and separate windows for opening files and such. Most importantly, however, is the context-sensitive menus available with XEmacs. For doing SGML editing it's a godsend, being able to right-click anywhere and instantly get a menu of the legal tags available at the point. I also find it helpful for HTML, and somewhat with programming. However I still use Vim for my mail and small file editing, XEmacs is too large to use for every single editing task. Just my $0.02, MBG -- "Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here." -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' pgpxUMYOjqNHW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Portable printer for Linux?
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 05:54:35PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Does anyone know of a small and therefore portable printer (b/w, laser > or inkjet) that definitely works on Linux? > I've got a Canon BJC-80 hooked up to my laptop right now, it works well, although I haven't found a dedicated printer driver for it. Currently I'm using a (generic) Epson driver, and the output looks great, but no colour. Just a good, solid, dependable printer. MBG -- "Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here." -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' pgpkI5fSTw2gl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE
I don't know if this will help, but I encountered problems myself with update-menus, being unable to add menu entries for certain packages. However I was able to manage a workaround by prefixing the package name with a "local." For example: ?package(local.Eterm):\ needs=X11\ section=Personal\ title="Eterm"\ command="/usr/bin/Eterm --theme custom --name Eterm" It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is either ~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and running update-menus as a user or root causes the menu item to appear properly. Hope this helps. MBG -- "Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here." -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #802
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 09:11:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's not exactly what you are looking for nor perfect but man -k keyword or > man --apropos keyword already is similar to what your describing. > > doug > > As a user who's new to linux, I'd just like to add my $0.02: The "man -k" and "apropos" commands are a good idea sorely lacking in execution. For example I type "man -k email" and get audiosend and showaudio as results. Huh? Not a big deal, I'll just keep searching. Trying "man -k e-mail" gets nothing, while "man -k mail" nets a list of 72 programs, only two of which are what I'm looking for, mutt or elm. _I_ don't think any of the search terms entered were unreasonable, yet only a specific one returned the desired result, and that amongst a large amount of noise. I don't know how the command works, but it seems to me that it depends too much on what the author of the man page enters as keywords. Perhaps there is a program that would allow for a searching of all the text in all the man pages of a system (though that would be probably be dreadfully slow). However I do understand the point that someone else brought up that you can't expect to sit down and instantly become productive at a new OS. Unfortunately I think the current setup makes learning linux more difficult than it has to be. MBG -- "Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here." -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
Re: Qmail question
The .deb contains the source code, and when you run 'dpkg --install qmail' it automagically unpacks it, compiles it, and asks if you want to install the finished product. I was quite impressed when I tried it, and have been quite happy with the ease of configuration and performance of qmail. HTH, MBG On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 11:02:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm currently using smail as a MTA, but I'd like to give another one a > try as soon as I get my slink CDs delivered. I thought of giving qmail > a try, but since there's no binaries (just sources), why is it packed as > a .deb? will that work like a .tar.gz file, and which options should I > pass to dpkg? -- "Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here." -Douglas Adams 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe'
