Kris Kried,
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?
If you change prefer to dislike less, then me :)
I still use emacs for some things that I haven't figured out how
to get vim to do. Xemacs has extra
Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing
enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack,
is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoiding either.
You probably know this, but you can easily remap
rob rote,
Richard E. Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
also, using emacs on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing
enough long reaches on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack,
is probably part (put a minor part) of my avoiding either.
You probably know this, but you can
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 02:17:53AM -0400,
Rob Mahurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use emacs when I'm in a text terminal (like right now) because I
haven't figured out how to use Xemacs' menus from the text terminal
and some of the functions of Xemacs (e.g., syntax highlighting) seem
On 13/Sep/1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
viene compilado con soporte gpm :). Una pregunta... es xemacs GNU /
GPL ?
Bueno, es que si XEmacs no es GNU ... no sé si concretamente en XEmacs,
pero en Emacs gran parte del código viene de Richard Stallman :-) Supongo que
compartirán
David Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message:
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d
Hi all,
where can I found a document describing the differences between emacs
and xemacs ?
Thanks.
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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
al que
está situado el cursor (o sea, lo que hace la tecla backspace, y no
el carácter **sobre** el que está el cursor, que es lo que esperamos que
haga la tecla del).
Juli-Manel: Yo uso normalmente GNU Emacs y eso no me pasa. Pero he
comprobado que con la configuración por defecto de XEmacs me
. Pero he
comprobado que con la configuración por defecto de XEmacs me ocurre lo
mismo que comentas. Sé que en la lista hay usuarios
avanzados de XEmacs que seguro que te podrán ayudar con este tema.
Venga los avanzados, ayudarme :))
Personalmente no me acaba de convencer el emacs... no tiene
When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message:
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
Also use the `xhost' program to verify
David Kanter wrote:
When I try to start xemacs, I occasionally get this error message:
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
Also use
hola a todos,
acabo de instalar xemacs y me molesta un pequeño detalle: cuando pulso
del hace la misma función que al pulsar la tecla de borrado. No
estoy en las X y el teclado en la consola funciona perfectamente,
excepto en el xemacs.
Que debo configurar para que la tecla del funcione
Hello,
I just installed XEmacs, and in my Windowmaker menu there now appears:
XEmacs20-nomule
XEmacs20-tty-nomule
What is the tty entry? Why do I have 2 installations of Xemacs when I
only picked 1?
Thanks.
Rich
*- On 9 Sep, rich wrote about What is xemacs-tty?
Hello,
I just installed XEmacs, and in my Windowmaker menu there now appears:
XEmacs20-nomule
XEmacs20-tty-nomule
What is the tty entry? Why do I have 2 installations of Xemacs when I
only picked 1?
It is an menu entry for a text
Anyone know how to quickly add .php3 extension to the C++ mode in
Xemacs?
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* Lance Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyone know how to quickly add .php3 extension to the C++ mode in
Xemacs?
Try the following in your .emacs:
(append '(
(\\.php3$ . c++-mode)
)
auto-mode-alist)
HTH,
Colin
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When I try to download packages in xemacs 21, It first tries to connect to
the ftp server. It the gives me an error:
efs is unable to determine a fully qualified domain name
for the local host to send as an anonymous ftp password.
The function `system-name' is not returning a fully qualified
to reinstall xemacs20-support put it only removed
the worning on instellation of xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn and nothing else).
The message is :
WARNING:
Couldn't find an obvious default for the root of the
XEmacs hierarchy.
WARNING:
Couldn't find obvious defaults for:
doc-directory
data-directory
exec-directory
I Installed xemacs 21 on my computer together with xemacs20 and it worked
fine.
I then removed xemacs 20 to free the space and xeamcs stoped working.
I tried to reinstall it from scrach but i kept getting an error massage
from apt-get (smae message i got when i tried to start it after removeing
I installed xemacs21 some time ago. It is now running parallel to xemacs20
untill it will work.
For almost anything i try to do i get an error:
Symbol's function definition is void:allow-remote-path
Also on most operations, including trying to open files i get a message:
I also got this message
(1) I want to get Xemacs to recognize *.tcl and *.itcl
files.
(2) I want to change the background color from gray to
white.
(3) I want to color highlight the keyword in source.tcl
and source.itcl files
What will I have to change to accomplish this.
I have been trying various things unsuccefully
/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.elc
Done
Remarkably, xemacs still doesn't find it. It does
[strace o/p]
stat(/usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/octave/prcs.elc,0xbfffe510) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
stat(/usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/octave/prcs.el,0xbfffe510) = -1 ENOENT
/prcs.e*
It should list both prcs.el and prcs.elc. If prcs.el does not exist, you
might try dpkg --pending --configure but I'm afraid if that doesn't work
I don't know much more.
Remarkably, xemacs still doesn't find it. It does
[strace o/p]
stat(/usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/octave/prcs.elc
in XEmacs 21.1. I have never seen a bug report
about hangs when resizing.
Jan
with Emacsen that do not support
keywords natively.
Is there a way of getting xemacs to look in the
right place?
Normally it picks up all subdirectories of site-lisp at startup. Are
the permissions on the prcs directory OK?
Jan
/
(symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor)
/site-lisp/prcs)
I commented this check out, and xemacs works fine.
I don't know whether this is kosher though.
Some helpful doc on how emacs starts up in
debian is in the file
/usr/doc/emacsen
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a know bug with xemacs20-nomule and gpm. The solutions are to
either recompile xemacs without gpm support, or stop gpm before
starting xemacs on the console. See
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lxemacs20-nomule.html for the several
VERY OLD
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
*- On 16 Aug, David Teague wrote about xemacs at console won't suspend
Hi Folks
[snip]
Would someone please tell me how to make xemacs running in text mode
suspend as emacs always does and xemacs does when
Hi,
My slink xemacs-nomule tries to load the prcs.el
package whenever I load any file.
However, this file doesn't seem to be a part of
any of the following:
xemacs20-bin
xemacs20-nomule
xemacs20-support
emacs19-el
emacs19
emacsen-common
How do I fix this? I'm assuming if someone
That file is in a package named prcs. If you go into dselect and install
the prcs package, it should be able to load prcs.el.
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Prashanth Mundkur wrote:
Hi,
My slink xemacs-nomule tries to load the prcs.el
package whenever I load any file.
However, this file doesn't
Hi Folks
The subject says it all. xemacs, when invoked as xemacs at the
console -- not in X -- refuses to suspend with a Control-z in a
usable way. The keyboard driver continues to respond to keystrokes
and echos them, but no keystroke kills what ever remains running
after attempting to suspend
*- On 16 Aug, David Teague wrote about xemacs at console won't suspend
Hi Folks
The subject says it all. xemacs, when invoked as xemacs at the
console -- not in X -- refuses to suspend with a Control-z in a
usable way. The keyboard driver continues to respond to keystrokes
and echos them
Hi all:
I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it?
Midnight commander uses color by itself...
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of eternal blessedness in the other world... (S. Kierkegaard)
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:02:26PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
Hi all:
I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it?
Midnight commander uses color by itself...
What is $TERM set to? (echo $TERM should show you if you
use bash). Try export TERM=xterm-debian
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it?
What is $TERM set to?
rxvt
Try export TERM=xterm-debian, and then run xemacs.
This worked. Thanks... However, taking this thread a bit
off-topic... I have a shell account at my
BTW any POSIX shell and termcap system will respond the same to a echo
$TERM, HTH
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:02:26PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
Hi all:
I use rxvt for an X terminal. How can I get xemacs show colors in it?
Midnight commander
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:05:03AM -0600, John Galt wrote:
BTW any POSIX shell and termcap system will respond the same to a echo
$TERM, HTH
Even inside of an xterm? My xterms give me 'xterm-debian' and on a virtual
console, I get 'linux'.
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Yep, every POSIX shell will respond console on VCs and xterm-debian
with Debian xterm--Xterms actually run a shell on top of 'em, so they'll
respond with the terminal type as well. It's part of the POSIX standard
that terminal type gets stored in TERM.
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
Hi,
launching w3 en XEmacs version 20.4 from packages 20.4-13 gives the
followin error: Invalid regexp: Invalid preceding regular expression
That happens with M-x w3 and M-x w3-fetch as well.
Any Idea
Thanks.
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Francois GELIS wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to
be using CPU or doing disk access--it just pauses for a few seconds
while starting.
[...]
As far as I remember, this issue has already
Timothy == Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Timothy So can anyone point me to any online tutorial/manual type
Timothy resources which are more comprehensive than the included
Timothy tutorial (from help menu) which doesnt even scratch the
Timothy surface?
There's a
XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to
be using CPU or doing disk access--it just pauses for a few seconds
while starting.
I tried an strace xemacs to see what system calls were being made.
During the slow part of startup, here's what it was doing:
setitimer
Kristopher == Kristopher Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kristopher Does anyone know what it's doing here, whether it's
Kristopher important, and whether there is some way to either make it
Kristopher work better
No, not at all.
Kristopher or to turn it off completely?
This is something I
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:29:42AM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
I haven't looked at the XEmacs source code yet to figure out what it's
doing, or why. My unenlightened guess is that it's trying to open some
audio stream, retrying several times, and eventually giving up.
Does anyone know
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to
be using CPU or doing disk access--it just pauses for a few seconds
while starting.
I tried an strace xemacs to see what system calls were being made.
During the slow
Hello,
I have been using Xemacs more and more and begin to realize that it is
obviously the single coolest program ever written;). Unfourtunately it is far
from easy to learn, and right now I am too broke to buy any more books. So can
anyone point me to any online tutorial/manual type
My xemacs gives me this statement in the bottom window.
Can't instantiate image (probably cached) : [xbm :mask-file
/usr/include/X11/bitmaps/left_ptrmsk ...
this happens when the cursor goes over the button bar at the top.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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The difference between Mechanical Engineers
depends on emacsen; however:
Package emacsen is not installed.
Package xemacs20-nomule which provides emacsen is to be removed.
Package emacs20 which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
.
.
.
But I don't want to remove emacs! Just xemacs which causes the problem.
Does anybody know how I can
: Destrius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: (X)Emacs in the console
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:29:52 +0800
Hmm. I got this little bit of code from the XEmacs newsgroup. It works for
me. Just insert it into .emacs:
---Cut Here
happened to that emacs is it an .Xdefaults/.xsesson issue? If so how do I
go about changing my xemacs to look this way. For most everything I use vim
but I liked the old emacs and might use it more if it was like that again.
at the bottom is the grepped emacs stuff out of my .Xresources, replace my
Hola,
¿ Sabe alguien cómo hacer que el funcionamiento de las teclas en
XEmacs sea el mismo bajo las X que desde la consola ?.
Tengo un PC con un teclado típico de 102 teclas, y no encuentro la
forma de hacer, entre otras cosas, que el funcionamiento de las teclas
Backspace y Delete sea
go about changing my xemacs to look this way. For most everything I use vim
but I liked the old emacs and might use it more if it was like that again.
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
Is it possible to make xemacs work with nextawg and if so can someone direct me
as to how?
I tried the usual export LD_PRELOAD thing. And ldd on xemacs binary shows the
first library in the nextawg directory. But it still comes up as usual.
Or if not. Is there any way to make it look
Hi all:
I'm having a problem using w3 as regular user. I have to use proxy for
http, and I have an environment variable
HTTP_PROXY=http://fasthttp.sympatico.ca:80 set for both root and my
normal user accounts. When I run xemacs with identical .emacs files as
root and as a user, w3 fails to open
Hi Debian users,
anyone knows why when I open a .html file in XEmacs and it enters in
html mode, if I press Tab key XEmacs enters in prolog mode?
Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique
PS: I'm using an older potato (2 months without update, because glibc2.1
When i change the setup from within xemacs it saves the .emacs file and
.xemacs-options but it won't load them the next time around.
_
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Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When i change the setup from within xemacs it saves the .emacs file and
.xemacs-options but it won't load them the next time around.
Can you post your .emacs file?
Micha Feigin wrote:
When i change the setup from within xemacs it saves the .emacs file and
.xemacs-options but it won't load them the next time around.
If you're talking about saving Font, Size, Weight. Add the following
line to your .emacs file,
(setq options-save-faces t
* Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When i change the setup from within xemacs it saves the .emacs file and
.xemacs-options but it won't load them the next time around.
[I´m assuming XEmacs 20.4]
What settings? Fonts and colors? Then have a look at the XEmacs FAQ
(in the Help menu
Probá:
ispell -T latin1 -d /usr/local/lib/espa~nol fichero_a_corregir
Suerte
On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 06:04:33PM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote:
Saludos a todos,
Me he puesto a corregir la ortografía de un texto hecho en Latex dentro de
XEmacs y los acentos no me los
Saludos a todos,
Me he puesto a corregir la ortografía de un texto hecho en Latex dentro de
XEmacs y los acentos no me los pilla como debiera.
Por ejemplo:
Representación me dice que tiene un error ortográfico pues el ispell ve una
palabra que no conoce, Representaci y pasa de ón. En la lista de
I have the debian sources for xemacs 20.4-13 and wanted to recompile
it to remove the gpm support. After applying a little filter to the
debian/rules file to get rid of the mule variants:
while(STDIN) {
print unless /mule/;
next unless /nomule/;
s/\S*canna\S*//g;
s/\S*[-_]mule
Does anyone know how to make and use a TAGS file when the source files
are gzipped? I installed the xemacs20-supportel package, which
installs all of the *.el elisp files in gzipped form. (I would guess
that emacs[19,20]-el also install the sources in gzipped form.) I
suppose I could simply
I haven't used xemacs, but FSF Emacs 20.2 has very nice Chinese
support. You need to use set-language-environment to start, and then
use select-input-method to select input method. The info with
Emacs20.2 under international has quite extensive documentation.
They support basic PY and ShuangPing
I have hscroll-mode in emacs but don't appear to have it in Xemacs
20.4. What happened to this mode and how do I get it back into Xemacs
20.4?
also, when I start emacs the first time I type a character I get an
error
'while opening UMTP file: no such file or directory'
but if I scroll down
Hola:
Estoy empezando a manejar Xemacs, y he activado la opcion
parent highlighting - Expresion que marca en otro color el
bloque ente llaves, parentesis, etc. pero la cuestion es:
Cuando el bloque es muy largo y me desplazo con la barra de
deslizamiento, el cursor se desplaza cuando termina la
SP, ju 25 feb 13:47:00 1999
Hola :
Hola:
Estoy empezando a manejar Xemacs, y he activado la opcion
parent highlighting - Expresion que marca en otro color el
bloque ente llaves, parentesis, etc. pero la cuestion es:
Cuando el bloque es muy largo y me desplazo con la barra de
I have a problem using the ^-Key in Xemacs. When I use the key
there is a message in the status line dead circumflex not defined.
I need this key for auctex-mode in mathematical environments like
simply $x^2$.
Can anybody help me?
Gunnar Schotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a problem using the ^-Key in Xemacs. When I use the key
there is a message in the status line dead circumflex not defined.
That is not the error messsage :-) There is a dead_circumflex in
there. I know what you mean now but in general it is very
Jan Vroonhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is not the error messsage :-) There is a dead_circumflex in
dead-circumflex of course
(define-key function-key-map 'dead_circumflex compose-circumflex-map)
Thus (define-key function-key-map 'dead-circumflex compose-circumflex-map)
Hi,
In xemacs, I selected the menu: mule - set-language-environment
- Chinese-big5.
Then I selected the menu: mule - Toggle-input-method.
Then I got a message:
Can't activate input method `chinese-py-punct-b5'
I then set the debugger on, and got the following
Hi,
How do I use the chinese support in Xemacs 20.2?
What input method do they support?? And how do I turn on this
support in xemacs??
Where can I get more info on this??
Thx.
Regards,
shao.
Mitchell Surface writes:
Can somebody tell me how I can get the backspace and delete keys in
Xemacs to work the way I expect them to, i.e. backspace deletes the
previous character and delete deletes the current character?
Try this:
;; Fix the DEL key
(setq delete-key-deletes-forward t)
(unless
Can somebody tell me how I can get the backspace and delete keys in
Xemacs to work the way I expect them to, i.e. backspace deletes the
previous character and delete deletes the current character?
Thanks for any help!
Mitchell Surface
Fort Wayne, IN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone maintain .deb files of the recent XEmacs betas? I know
someone does this for the Enlightenment CVS snapshots, so I figured a
similar thing for XEmacs might exist. Thanks.
SJG
Hi Scott,
I dont know if someone does XEmacs debian packages for CVS snapshots but
I know that there is a project for Debian CVS snapshots. Jim Pick is the
leader of the project. I forgot the URL now. Better to wrote to him.
Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 04:37:10PM +, Antonio Calvo Rodriguez wrote:
Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote:
(global-set-key 'dead-circumflex 'compose-circumflex-map)
Mejor ponerlo en el sitio adecuado, es decir, sólo para la versión XEmacs
(no para GNU Emacs) y para la versión
I compiled my own Xemacs a while ago (and got a lot of good help doing
it from this list), but it turned out my xemacs does strange things
when I send mail. I got the mail below back when I sent it to
the list.
But it got to the list anyway. It's very annoying to get error
messages containing
Alguien comentó en esta lista que cuando en XEmacs, al menos en la versión
20, se pulsaba la tecla ^, se mostraba inmediatamente la frase
dead-circunflex no defined, o algo así, acompañada de un pito, y por
supuesto no se insertaba el ^ en el texto. Con lo que, no sólo no podemos
poner letras con
Gerardo Aburruzaga Garcia wrote:
Alguien comentó en esta lista que cuando en XEmacs, al menos en la versión
20, se pulsaba la tecla ^, se mostraba inmediatamente la frase
dead-circunflex no defined, o algo así, acompañada de un pito, y por
supuesto no se insertaba el ^ en el texto.
...
Yo
You can use both!! There is an el package for it.. you can use Xemacs with
a VIM mode...
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Evgeny Roubinchtein wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote:
What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over
[x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love
Mark Phillips wrote:
How do you get colour highlighting for syntax in XEmacs - eg for latex
using AUC-TeX?
Some people like font-latex.el, which comes as a contrib add-on
with AUC-TeX, which in turn is bundled with XEmacs. (The primary
font-latex support is for Emacs, so XEmacs bugs turn up
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote:
What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over
[x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear
from both sides.
This isn't as complete an answer as some other posts I've seen, just my
$0.02.
I am teaching myself
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Eric House wrote:
My experience is the opposite of yours: I started with xemacs and then
switched to emacs. My primary reason for doing so was that so many
more people are using emacs that it's a lot easier to get help, and
the contributed packages I wanted to use tended
Mark Phillips writes:
Mark How do you get colour highlighting for syntax in XEmacs - eg for latex
Mark using AUC-TeX?
M-x font-lock-mode
Mark Also, do you have any other nifty setups for XEmacs.
A good way to start in XEmacs in going to the HELP menu in the menubar
and grab
It looks as though you don't have audio header files on your system,
or the XEmacs source is looking in the wrong place for said audio
header files. From your prompt, do the following command:
find / -name soundlib.h -print
If find shows you that you do in fact have soundlib.h on your
Hi,
A while ago you wrote to debian-user saying:
Wow, why such complexities? Try VM under Emacs or (better) XEmacs. You
get the best of all worlds. When you're in X you get clickable URLs
and HTML rendering (and toolbars and inline image attachment viewing
and all the other stuff you see
Hi,
You may want to check:
http://www.xemacs.org/faq/xemacs-faq.html
Sasha.
It looks nicer.
The XEmacs maintainers are generally more receptive to suggestions than the
GNU Emacs maintainers.
Many more bundled packages than GNU Emacs
Binaries are available for many common operating systems
What advantages does XEmacs have over Emacs (and are there any the other
way around)? I am using emacs at the moment. Is it worth me changing?
Another reply listed the advantages of xemacs over emacs. So I'll take
the other side.
My experience is the opposite of yours: I started with xemacs
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Chris What are people's reasons for using [x]emacs over vim or vim over
Chris [x]emacs? I currently am using vim, and love it, but would like to hear
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X11 (although Emacs can run on ttys).
On the contrary, Emacs is more suitable for developement purposes, and
actually for many other things. Personally, I practically *live* in my XEmacs
session. Really, I almost don't use any terminal. Not only I develop under it,
but I read mail and news
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 08:05:26AM -0800, Eric House wrote:
What advantages does XEmacs have over Emacs (and are there any the other
way around)? I am using emacs at the moment. Is it worth me changing?
My experience is the opposite of yours: I started with xemacs and then
switched
Matt Garman writes:
Matt You can use the same .emacs file everywhere, with XEmacs and GNU emacs
Matt options defined. I have both flavors of emacs on my machine, and my
Matt .emacs file is setup such that GNU emacs ignores the XEmacs stuff, and
Matt XEmacs ignores the GNU emacs options
*live* in my XEmacs session.
You can't do this in vim, but I've never figured out why you'd want to.
Back in the days when I logged in over an HDS terminal, I could see the
advantage of all this. But in a modern X environment I would rather
not. Netscape is a fine browser, exmh is an excellent mail
Tom Allard writes:
Tom Back in the days when I logged in over an HDS terminal, I could see the
Tom advantage of all this. But in a modern X environment I would rather not.
Tom Netscape is a fine browser, exmh is an excellent mail reader, tkman is
Tom the best man page browser I've seen, bash
Hi!
Thanks for the help so far with my xemacs+gpm problem. It still won't
compile, though! I got rid of the ncurses error, and a couple of other
things that I solved in similar manners, but now I get this:
---8--
In file
tom told,
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On the contrary, Emacs is more suitable for developement purposes, and
actually for many other things.
Well, vim (and gvim) is actually quite powerful for development
purposes. All the best (IMO) that emacs had was taken into vim already.
there's one
* I don't like mouses. I have 10 fingers and I like fast
keystrokes. It's amazing what you can do with 10 fingers, and at what
speed you can do it :-) This means that for instance, I prefer to type
`M-x man' and get a manpage with hyperlinks and all the stuff you want
in the same window,
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