Re: emacs or xemacs ?

["Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu>]

Kris Kried,

> I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to
> know:  Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why?

If you change "prefer" to "dislike less," then me :)

I still use emacs for some things that I haven't figured out how
to get vim to do.  Xemacs has extra buttons on the screen, which take
up screen space.  The last line on the terminal in vi takes more 
than enough, I don't want to give up even more . . . also, using emacs
on CCIE (*Control Key In Exile) keyboard, causing enough long reaches
on my little finger sthat I had to see a quack, is probably part (put a 
minor part) of my avoiding either.

I want to do it, whatever "it" is, with as few keystrokes as possible, and
without my keys leaving the keyboard to grab a mouse (though I use it to
cut & paste for editing.)  And I want *all* of my screen real estate,
so I stay away from xemacs (and anything made by microsoft after about 
'93)

hawk




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