From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jan 21 16:45:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (operamail.infinite.com [199.29.68.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE65F37B400 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:45:35 -0800 (PST) X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Mon, 21 Jan 02 19:45:34 -0500 X-WebMail-UserID: leegold Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:45:34 -0500 From: leegold To: brownicm@prokyon.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00000000 Subject: RE: emacs ques and a ports ques. Message-ID: <3C4DE77F@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Just a suggestion. Forget emacs and learn vi. I think vi is easier for a new >user to get a handle on. It's always there on any UNIX-like system. It'll run >faster because it uses a lot less system resources than emacs. > yeah, I'm adequate on vi and thought I should experience Emacs, "The King of the Editors". After 10 minutes of emacs and I was beat to a pulp. I agree w/you. >Another suggestion. Since you installed all ports you probably installed >xemacs, the X version of emacs. Try to uninstall xemacs. Just a wild guess. >libXaw is a set of X widgets. Installing emacs may have linked emacs and >xemacs so that calling emacs calls xemacs. This is all pure speculation, of >course. Nope, it was emacs 20.7, I think GNU emacs. Actually I want to try Nedit. If nedit has the ":" command line like vi for regular expressions, or something like it, it'll be good. > >Good luck. > >Chris Browning >brownicm#prokyon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message