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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:58:42 -0500
From:      parv <parv_@yahoo.com>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installing xemacs21 w/ minimum packages
Message-ID:  <20020319175842.GA31005@moo.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <20020319080130.GA16769@moo.holy.cow> <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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in message <443cywsggu.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>,
wrote Lowell Gilbert thusly...
>
> 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/?
>
> All of it, I think.  It looks like xemacs-packages is only pulled in
> to provide the "enriched text" support.  Just pull out the RUN_DEPENDS
> line.  You can probably pull out the graphics support, too, without
> missing it.

i was thinking of the same; just needed a second nod.


> 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?

you are quite perceptive.  personally, i prefer vi(m); xemacs is for
those rare occasions when people other than myself use my laptop &
ask for emacs.  come to think of it, editors other than vi clones
should be ok too for said people.

 - parv

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