Different Strokes for different folks. Emacs - "Show a newbie that and you will see the dust as he turns and runs back to the Windows camp" <smile>. Emacs and Linux/Unix for that matter is not for everybody - its there because of and for the growing few that want to learn to swim upstream against the current. I first heard about this strange thing called Emacs in Clifford Stoll's book, "The Cuckoo's Egg" In fact, that book was responsible for getting me interested in the world beyond DOS. I vowed when I finished the book that someday I would learn about Emacs and Unix. There is a romance behind all of this wonderful esoteric stuff - let's face it, those in the world of windows will never reach out and touch the actual kernel of it all.
Rob "This ps -eafg command bothers me," he said. "I can't say why, but it just doesn't taste right. Maybe its just paranoia, but I'm sure that I've seen that combination before." -- from "The Cuckoo's Egg" -----Original Message----- From: Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Date: Sunday, April 30, 2000 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Mail/news software >On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 02:13:19PM +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: >> I am very sorry if I offend, but I find emacs/xemacs about the most >> off-putting thing in Linux. Show a newbie that and you will see the dust >> as he turns and runs back to the Windows camp. > >That is not always the case. I tried out vi and emacs when I started >as a Linux newbie and did not like vi. I could not immediately >understand it's logic. I could however immediately start >using emacs. It has an easy and very good tutorial for newbies and >after 5 years I am still learning and enjoying new features. > >Johann >-- >J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa >Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388 > "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. But > whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same > shall save it." Luke 9:24 > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
