From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 7 20:23:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43B637B401; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 158CsA-000A3I-00; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:23:42 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f583NfY61903; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:23:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 04:23:41 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: emacs under x or console? Message-ID: <20010608042341.B61773@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010607153300.G42170@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010608105120.N58042@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010608105120.N58042@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:51:20AM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | The real problem with console mode is that the window is so small. | I'm writing this on a window 110x100 in size. You can't do anything | like that on a character console, and it limits your view of things. Interesting. That makes sense to me. I had that debate once with some 'hard core' programmer types (the same ones who told me FreeBSD was old technology) who felt all code should be console friendly, and therefore wrap at 80 columns or less. Also, they felt all coding should be done from console mode because this was the only mode guaranteed to exist on all boxes, especially those with low resources. Needless to say, they weren't emacs fans either. :-) I figure if you have an X display, why not use it? jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message