[geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Small schools.& elections

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 dave at cca.org wrote:

> I prefer to use a minimal environment, and get by on old-enough-to-be-free
> hardware. :-)

Yes, but even a 486 runs emacs decently.

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> It's similar to the reaction most people here probably have to "user
> friendly" dialog boxes that want you to confirm everything you do.
> "Just fucking do it!", you know? I don't want my editor to try to be
> a smart-ass.

It's not like emacs gets in the way, at least for me.  Well, I take that
back.  It always grills me to find out if I want to save the scratch
buffer if I was using it for anything.  I wish I could figure out how to
turn that off.  There has to be an easy way to do it.
 
> My desktop environment is super-ascetic too. I don't believe in icons
> or title bars.

I have 2 icons that don't provide usefull information.  One is the stupid
WindowMaker logo.  The other is the WindowMaker clip.  I have the clip up
because if I don't there is an icon on my desktop for every damn program
running.

The other three icons are a load monitor, xmms, and a clock/date program.

I do use title bars, I have to admit.

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Joshua Boyd