From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 24 15:28:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11917 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:28:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11910 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:28:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dswartz@druber.com) Received: from manticore (manticore.druber.com [207.180.95.108]) by mail.kersur.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA09929; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:28:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19981024182807.009be140@mail.kersur.net> X-Sender: druber@mail.kersur.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:28:07 -0400 To: Mike Smith From: Dan Swartzendruber Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems Cc: Mike Smith , "Stephen J. Roznowski" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199810242126.OAA01659@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:26 PM 10/24/98 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > >If all you're doing is editing a few configuration files, emacs is >overkill. Look at the size of the package, for instance. > >Emacs is a full-featured editing and develpment system. You need a >text editor. If you don't like vi (understandable) there are plenty of >editors that look-and-feel like emacs but don't come with the enormous >bulk and X dependancies. Use one of these instead; I recommend jove. That's fine. I've never used jove. I use gnu emacs 99.999% of the time normally, and I don't want to have to keep shifting mental gears. If jove looks&feels like emacs, that would be fine by me... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message