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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:20:18 -0500
From:      parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017006491.726085@mired.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installing xemacs21 w/ minimum packages
Message-ID:  <20020319232018.GA42346@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <15511.45595.35330.648363@guru.mired.org>
References:  <20020319080130.GA16769@moo.holy.cow> <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <15511.45595.35330.648363@guru.mired.org>

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in message <15511.45595.35330.648363@guru.mired.org>,
wrote Mike Meyer thusly...
>
> In <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>, Lowell Gilbert
> <lowell@world.std.com> typed:
> > parv <parv_@yahoo.com> writes:
> > > i want to install xemacs w/o all other junk listed in
> > > xemacs-packages/Makefile as all i want is an editor.  what can
> > > i do away w/?
> > As a very heavy emacs user, though, I have to ask:  if all you
> > want is basic editing functions, are you sure that you want
> > emacs?
>
> Actually, the one that comes to my mind is, if that's what you
> want, why xemacs? Why not stock emacs? Or any of a number of small
> emacs-like editors? I prefer mg, but I'm the author of that
> particular version of microemacs.

why xemacs? well, from my experience w/ (x)emacs during stay at
university, emacs had too big default font (like large print book
editions), and xemacs used to have smaller font (like stock listings
or classifieds in newspaper).  in addition, i wasn just plain
unaware of any other emacs-like editors.

anyway, i will checkout other smaller editors from the ports.


> BTW, it looks like what's really going on is that it's testing for
> enriched-text to see if xemacs-packages has been loaded or not, as the
> only things that list it in their plist appear to be emacs fof various
> versions. If someone tries building it without those, I'd be
> interested in the results.

i had installed plain xemacs21, twice, w/o any problems w/o
RUN_DEPENDS.  is that what you wanted to know, mike, or something
else?

  - parv

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