d...@teklibre.org (Dave Täht) writes: > You are right, but I have found the default install of emacs to be so > lame on so many distros for so long that I can understand why people > have flocked to other editors. > > Take, for example, the fact that no distro that I know of installs an > emacs compatible ansi-term entry in terminfo by default. (Couple that > with the fact that no terminal emulator I have found in emacs works as > good as the equivalent in xterm, gnome-terminal, etc. It's really > bugging me at the moment, actually, I'd really like to use ansi-term but > every time I try it ends up spewing data all on the same line after a > while. I swear I had it working well for a few days with 23.1 but then I > went back to emacs-snapshot because I didn't want to build everything > Emacs-snapshot did for me) > > Multiply by the huge number of packages required to make emacs > competitive with eclipse, like semantic. Stir in missing-by-default > emacs modes like Python mode. > > Compare with the bundled supported moduls of vim for system > administration and basic programming tasks. Simmer, > then run away.
For a better set of defaults (more modes and bells and whistles and a nice extensible initialization structure), I'd recommend one of the following... http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/tree or my preferred versions of the above http://github.com/eschulte/emacs-starter-kit http://eschulte.github.com/emacs-starter-kit/ cheers -- Eric _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
