Re: OT: which of emacs/xemacs do you prefer?

2010-02-26 Thread clemens fischer
Trent W. Buck wrote: > If you hate elisp, you may wish to investigate climacs (CL), edwin > (MIT Scheme), jEdit (Java) or yi (Haskell). They allegedly try to be > editors in the same vein as Emacs, but personally I found the lack of > apps, libraries and general functionality to be enough of a tu

Re: OT: which of emacs/xemacs do you prefer?

2010-02-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
clemens fischer writes: > which of emacs/xemacs do you prefer? I, and most of Freenode's #emacs denizens, use GNU Emacs. XEmacs seems to mostly be restricted to those who started with Xemacs 19 rather than previous or subsequent generations. > I guess the subject says it all. My Emacs fu is r

Re: OT: which of emacs/xemacs do you prefer?

2010-02-22 Thread Nicholas Marriott
emacs. I use it for editing and playing tetris though, not for email or news or irc or any of that jazz. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:12:49PM +0100, clemens fischer wrote: > I guess the subject says it all. My Emacs fu is rusty and I got tired > of constantly thinking in an ancient, dynamic-scope

OT: which of emacs/xemacs do you prefer?

2010-02-19 Thread clemens fischer
I guess the subject says it all. My Emacs fu is rusty and I got tired of constantly thinking in an ancient, dynamic-scope lisp dialect, tweaking my configuration and finding/maintaining oort-gnus versus gnus and the like. The one sad thing with vim is its inability to run a real sub-process inter