> I've been reading a lot online that emacs takes up a lot of space and > sometimes causes strange things to happen on the screen and within debian's > setup. One online message jokingly hinted that maybe microsoft created > emacs due to the multiple issues that occur when running emacs.
I probably have missed those messages. For me Xemacs is working very good. (except, Xemacs 19 is stuck in broken mode in dselect, and doesnt want to leave. ) It's working better than Netscape 4.5, which from time to time creates zombie processes on me, which take up 17M of ram. > I plan on networking my pc & linux as well as play games, play music > software, run perl scripts remotely, and run a pbtv card in the system. > With that in mind, do you know if there any dangers in me running dselect > on emacs packages? Are there any disadvantages to not having emacs > installed in my system? Again, there could be some danger, I don't know. Emacs is just convinient text-editor. Pretty good for programming. Unfortunately, it is bulky. No disadvantages of not having it in your system, except you would be missing the wonderful psychoanalyst Zippy. Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux.
