From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 7 20:38:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA31937B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1D0C66ACBC; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 13:08:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 13:08:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: emacs under x or console? Message-ID: <20010608130833.T58042@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010607153300.G42170@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010608105120.N58042@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010608042341.B61773@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 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