[rescue] Re:EMACS

Paul Sladen rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 27 22:13:23 CDT 2001


On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, James Fogg wrote:

> > > The ubiquitous nature of Vi won me over. I can Vi in Solaris, Vim in LInux and
> > > even Vim in MS Windows. In fact, with *nix systems I don't have to do a thing
> > > to be able to Vi/m. If I want to EMACS (my previous weapon of choice) I have to
> > > add software (unless its Red Hat Linux). Its low resource requirements make it
> > > attractive too (ever try to EMACS on a crippled system?).
> > 
> > Had you been using Debian/GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) you could have typed:
> > 
> >   apt-get install emacs
> > 
> > Thats all!
> 
> I just can't get used to BSD derivatives. I'm a sysV kinda guy.

Is Debian's SysVinit not enough to tempt you?!  ;-)

Paul!




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