Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 06:12, Randy Kramer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to do pretty much everything from the command line now, to the point that I don't even touch XWindows for most of the day. While this is cool and exciting, I'm curious as to people's opinions on what

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-28 Thread jennifer
Does anybody have an Emacs quick reference file? If you do, please share. TIA, Jen On Monday 27 August 2001 17:25, you wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:34, Paul wrote: In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words, written Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:01:00 -0400 (EDT) a few days and it seems to

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 14:05, jennifer wrote: Does anybody have an Emacs quick reference file? If you do, please share. On my computer I issued the following commands: narfi@/[1042] locate refcard.ps /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps narfi@/[1043] rpm -q -f

[newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread dic98
Good afternoon folks, I'm starting to do pretty much everything from the command line now, to the point that I don't even touch XWindows for most of the day. While this is cool and exciting, I'm curious as to people's opinions on what text editor I should use for programming, file editing,

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Tim Barnard
don't need vi, IMHO. Tim - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 12:01 PM Subject: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi Good afternoon folks, I'm starting to do pretty much everything from the command line now, to the point that I

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Paul
In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words, written Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:01:00 -0400 (EDT) a few days and it seems to me that vi is a lot easier thus far. The CTRL-D/DEL thing in emacs is a real hassle. I know that vi is intended for C programming and emacs for command interpreting/bash

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Randy Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to do pretty much everything from the command line now, to the point that I don't even touch XWindows for most of the day. While this is cool and exciting, I'm curious as to people's opinions on what text editor I should use for programming, file

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Randy Kramer
Oops, sorry, if you want to use it from the command line (without X) it won't work. I'd use jstar from the command line, but I'd still use nedit in X, even invoking it from the command line. Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to do pretty much

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Isaac Curtis
What's the difference between Xemacs and emacs? - Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:34, Paul wrote: In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words, written Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:01:00 -0400 (EDT) a few days and it seems to me that vi is a lot easier thus far. The CTRL-D/DEL thing in emacs is a real hassle. I know that vi is intended for C programming

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread David E. Fox
What's the difference between Xemacs and emacs? There are a few differences. Xemacs started life out as a separate source code fork from GNU Emacs - it was called Lucid Emacs back then. Since then, the code bases have merged somewhat, and there aren't too many differences between the two. Some

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread David E. Fox
and emacs for command interpreting/bash programming, so is it best for me to use both? What are the advantages of each tool under different circumstances? I'm not sure where you got that idea - see my other message. My recommend- ation - use whatever you feel more comfortable with. For