Pre-testing Emacs 22

Posted Nov 3, 2006 0:50 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Pre-testing Emacs 22 by N0NB
Parent article: Pre-testing Emacs 22

You also get all the things you asked about with Emacs (with, I think,
brief-mode).

You don't have to `remember' modes: for the most part they fly into
existence when you need them (make-mode when you load a makefile, cc-mode
when you load C code, info-mode when you read info, various gnus modes
when you're reading news).

And, um, I can't imagine what made you think that KDE and Emacs are in any
way incompatible. Emacs is an *editor*: you can use it as an editor and
use the desktop's features for e.g. terminal emulators, or live in it and
hardly ever venture out, it's up to you. (I do both: at work I live
entirely in XEmacs and hardly ever look at anything else: at home I use
konsoles and graphical media viewers and RSS aggregators and the like.)

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Pre-testing Emacs 22

Posted Nov 3, 2006 4:31 UTC (Fri) by N0NB (guest, #3407) [Link] (1 responses)

My point wasn't that KDE and Emacs are incompatible. I was making an obscure point in reference to the article's mention that Version 22 includes *two* IRC clients along with a spreadsheet to go with the existing mail and news and other functions. Thus my point about already having one DE that I use and not needing another.

Sheesh! Some of you guys take all of the fun out of posting...

But, I march to the beat of my own drummer. Which is why I switched to Linux full time long before there were any thoughts of IPOs or companies releasing some proprietary program as "open source". I won't be joining the vi or Emacs camps anytime soon (yes, I've tried each in the past, I just wish I could avoid vi as successfully as I can avoid Emacs) as I have found what works best for me.

The great thing about Free Software is that one need not live in a straight jacket.

Pre-testing Emacs 22

Posted Nov 14, 2006 20:56 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Aha.

(And if you want to live in a straitjacket, Emacs has a psychiatrist. It's
stuffed with dead useful features like that. A minesweeper game, too, and
a window manager. Just what you want in your text editor: if it crashes X
goes down with it!)