Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 13:08:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: emacs under x or console? Message-ID: <20010608130833.T58042@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010608042341.B61773@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:23:41AM %2B0100 References: <20010607153300.G42170@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010608105120.N58042@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010608042341.B61773@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Friday, 8 June 2001 at 4:23:41 +0100, j mckitrick wrote: >> 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. :-) Careful what you say there, that's style(9) flame war fodder :-) > I figure if you have an X display, why not use it? "Because it's bloated and inefficient". Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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