On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:53:40 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 10, 3:27 pm, "timw.google" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 10, 2:57 pm, Robert Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> > Or, you can just continue using emacs. I'm using vim, and can't think >> > of a single reason why I should change it for idle.
>> Thanks. I on a XP box now, and it's a pain to get things installed >> here. That's why I'm not using emacs. When I'm on Linux, I use emacs. >> It's not worth the trouble to install something else for just this. > > It is not more difficult to install emacs on XP. What makes you think > that? Yeah. To me, it has just been a matter of unzipping emacs-x.y.z.zip somewhere, placing my .emacs somewhere where emacs searches for it, tell it to use the Lucida Console font and type away. As far as I can tell, there is no need to be local admin. (Of course, timw's employer might forbid Downloading Dangerous Unlicenced Freeware from the Internet -- but be got IDLE somehow, didn't he?) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
