[Boulder.pm] text editor wars

[ljp]

I use uemacs on my zaurus. :)
Tiny, very tiny. No lisp

1/16/2003 6:35:59 PM, Jay F Kominek <jkominek at miranda.org> wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:52:24PM -0700, Walter Pienciak wrote:
>> It was bound to happen.
>> 
>> My daughter wants emacs.  Her CU professor wants the class
>> to use emacs.
>
>CSCI1300? Thats pretty standard. As I understand it, the profs
>for that course have enough trouble helping people figure out
>how to use UNIX/C/etc that they don't want to have to deal with
>a variety of editors, as well.
>
>> Well, as the saying goes, "There is only one emacs, and its
>> name is emacs."  No, wait a minute, there are several emacses.
>
>gnu emacs, and xemacs are the only ones that aren't just clones,
>of which I'm aware. There are other things like JEmacs, which
>is some scheme/java monster with emacs key bindings, but that
>doesn't count in my book.
>
>> Opinions on the best emacs that money can['t] buy, so I can
>> install it for my l'il darling?
>
>Last I heard, they were telling students to install GNU Emacs.
>Which seems to have a smaller footprint (both disk and memory)
>to me. I'm not aware of anything xemacs does that a beginner
>would have much reason to use.
>
>Of the small emacs clones, I prefer jove. It has all the common key
>bindings, but you can't use it as your MUA/news reader/web
>broswer/gaming platform.
>
>Also: http://wiw.org/~unslider/perllinux/aced/  :)
>
>-- 
>Jay Kominek <jkominek at miranda.org>
>Don't worry,
>Things have an annoying tendency to work out.
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