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Re: survival skills for teenage geeks



On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:21:47AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:00, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 07:59:07PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 01:17, John Holroyd wrote:
> > > > Form yourself a LUG and teach these lost souls the truth of St. Ignucius
> > > > Bible and the Glory of Emacs. ;)
> > > 
> > > Why isn't there a religion of nano? I want to worship nano, dammit!!
> > 
> > Yeah!  Nano and XEmacs forever! :)
> > 
> > Nano is great on the console, and XEmacs is the best editor (IMHO) for
> > X (and for programming). OTOH, vi serves no good purpose
> > anywhere. IMHO. *grin* 
> 
> I like gedit for quick edit jobs in X (along the lines of jove or nano

Yeah, that one looks ok.  I'll try it out and see. *shrug*

> on the console), and jEdit for longer, more involved editing (most
> notably, programming bigger than quick hacks).
> 
> I used to use XEmacs. I like jEdit because it's a lot like XEmacs (and,
> to a lesser degree, GNU Emacs), but it was designed for the GUI from the
> ground up, and it shows. For example, it's much easier to customize with
> a graphical configuration window that neatly organizes various settings.
> Anything that isn't covered there can still be customized by writing a
> script or hacking the source, as with Emacs. Thus you get the best of
> both worlds.

Hmm... Does that come as a Debian package?  I've looked for it and I
can't find it.  I think it used to be one (IIRC), but I can't find it
now. 

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