Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sean> I've been thinking about giving emacs a look see, as it seems Sean> that a zillion people out there use it, and I do like some of Sean> the features I've heard about. I went and took a very cursory Sean> glance at the FAQ, and some of the online manual, and then went Sean> to apt-get install. This thing is HUGE. I'd heard that emacs Sean> wasn't small, but almost 10MB for a text editor? (+15MB if you Sean> want to use xemacs)
(It's worth noting that the default 'emacs' packages *do* include X support; XEmacs is a separate editor, which in many ways is almost like GNU Emacs but has better support for graphics and proportional fonts, and has many more add-on packages included. If it's just you on your system, you probably only need one or the other.) Sean> Perhaps I'm just missing some glaring options, but for me to Sean> download 10 or 25MB worth of text editor, this thing better do Sean> everything except mop the floor. A-yup. :-) I'm sending this mail from XEmacs; it includes at least three or four different mail readers. And a Web browser. And a few games (M-x blackbox, M-x xmine). And a Zippy the Pinhead quotes database (M-x yow). And the traditional Eliza program (M-x doctor). And of course M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead. :-) I program a decent bit and find Emacs tremendously useful. I get syntax highlighting and semi-automatic indententation. I've bound 'C-c C-c' to run a M-x compile for me, and when that's done 'C-x `' will highlight errors in the source. There's also decent integration between gdb and Emacs. Sean> I'm not really up to starting a flame war, so comments like "use Sean> emacs, it rocks, vi sucks!" are going to be utterly useless to Sean> me. (not flaming) I don't use Emacs for *everything*. Mail, news, coding, TeX, it's wonderful, but from day-to-day text editing it is kind of big and huge. Yay vim. :-) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?" "Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
