From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 13:24:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B63237BA37 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:24:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.152] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A3CD27D70106; Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:23:41 -0400 Received: from picusnet.com (localhost.picusnet.com [127.0.0.1]) by picusnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09401; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:17:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Message-ID: <38EE4255.B04D278B@picusnet.com> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:17:26 -0400 From: William Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backspace key in Vi(m) under Xterm References: <200004071428.HAA26205@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------9049E13B1267391BF1B4C880" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------9049E13B1267391BF1B4C880 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm not giving up so quickly. I can make Emacs do all kinds of stuff, but it's just principal Kevin Oberman wrote: > William, > > I would not give up on Emacs so quickly. > > I run XEmacs and fire it up when I log in with no visible frames. I > have the .emacs file launch gnuserv and then use gnuclient as my > editor. It typically brings up a frame with the file I want to edit in > under a second. XEmacs even comes with a shell script to make the edit > command use gnuclient if you have a gnuserv running and xemacs if not, > but I'd prefer to just have XEmacs running at boot time. > > I think emacs has similar capability, but I much prefer XEmacs, so I > have not tried it. If you can't make emacs work, try XEmacs. But don't > give up on as excellent an editor as emacs because of a problem so > easily worked around. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 -- William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com) http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GU d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W+ N o-- K- w--- O- M- V-- PS+ PE++ Y-- PGP-- t++ 5-- X+++ R tv- b+ DI++++ D--- G- e- h! r-- !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ --------------9049E13B1267391BF1B4C880 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm not giving up so quickly.  I can  make Emacs do all kinds of stuff, but it's just principal
 

Kevin Oberman wrote:

William,

I would not give up on Emacs so quickly.

I run XEmacs and fire it up when I log in with no visible frames. I
have the .emacs file launch gnuserv and then use gnuclient as my
editor. It typically brings up a frame with the file I want to edit in
under a second. XEmacs even comes with a shell script to make the edit
command use gnuclient if you have a gnuserv running and xemacs if not,
but I'd prefer to just have XEmacs running at boot time.

I think emacs has similar capability, but I much prefer XEmacs, so I
have not tried it. If you can't make emacs work, try XEmacs. But don't
give up on as excellent an editor as emacs because of a problem so
easily worked around.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net                  Phone: +1 510 486-8634

-- 
William D. Freeman (wdf@picusnet.com)
http://members.xoom.com/EvilGNU
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